Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c6f392e440f5c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 05:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e0de74597c9792e6df137b5d49757ca5 SHA-1: 9d19e7a8054393f7a6ed349c5a847fb7ce491f0a SHA-256: d7c6f392e440f5c41166198a0f598c559383382e7546f831da9d5bb51ca86edb
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a malicious redirector link, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=century+21+accounting+chapter+13+stu', which is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this redirector URL and other PDF links. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into interacting with malicious content.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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.link/pify?keyword=century+21+accounting+chapter+13+stu
    • http://medidil.fremontbands.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874232/kivusikenuguz-bifas.pdf
    • http://files.sealsriflescopes.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856852/zekadimemabidavidox.pdf
    • http://tesej.congregationalchurchmtdora.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/2113118.pdf
    • http://files.abc-nys.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775402/rexeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1141/4939/files/27191925998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1940/3168/files/buwejerepewekujijejesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4146/3189/files/rubogizawiled.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6962/0643/files/seahawks_injury_report_week_8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/chaupai_sahib_steek_in_punjabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0375/4142/files/the_stranger_by_chris_van_allsburg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3575/4650/files/rurigiditizesamepakaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/neresem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3282/files/97367332366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9376/2975/files/integration_of_hyperbolic_functions.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_off0000540d.bin
c75710d46817065a90b24f4b8ab5f27d8eadd2a2ce97f42a7bcdcdc69de7b945
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x540D 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066d5.bin
fdaeca2429d416f76cbf114b18f5ea0aaff1d5474b71c0ddf514a5cf95937176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D5 10288 bytes