Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfe414f64811655f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 19:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 471bca416170839f51c58a406f549d6f SHA-1: c816789dbe1139d77bf78048683b70a6619012d7 SHA-256: cfe414f64811655fbd49ed13e366a1285a5164a01ee383424fd1b3cb9a019d90
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The document body also contains the malicious URL and references a lure for MFA or one-time code harvesting. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely for credential theft or to download further payloads.

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pokemon+yellow+cheat+codes
    • http://files.christyokeeffe.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814337/rovetisisil.pdf
    • http://files.westfieldbouncehouserentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384789/4605166.pdf
    • http://files.bomrad.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437622/xigirefonibob.pdf
    • http://files.moirsa.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813922/newefaximinov-pigiserawuweru-wozuvibenox.pdf
    • http://files.stephaniedigrazianutrition.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398350/jaguzumurufupirat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2590/8383/files/reviguxezogerolexajom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/tabupazelefakutude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/79265304831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4624/8358/files/39564981652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/6091145869.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0577/0904/files/nunonaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2590/8383/files/zedubefok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/63032467643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0471/files/81501830778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1706/files/68872897641.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000826b.bin
e1b5997d840ae2a2dcc9a85ffeb22b1cabf9d23aa1c7b647e99cf61c014ac64c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x826B 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009491.bin
8451a036f028a28c32bc35079e507f95da28632bc1b1cd42425c0be76016b45e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9491 12148 bytes