Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3411bfe909d2484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-05 01:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 497e6b55f53aa1199835fdfd84dd41c7 SHA-1: fc997b01457106e7be441fe5e966beae90e6ab10 SHA-256: e3411bfe909d2484344e0fa63436713c1ec463b01c52cbce698066aebd1a0f0e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=whatsapp+2+for+iphone+2019'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm, with the first URL being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5665/9617/files/template_ieee_transactions_on_power_electronics.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Whatsapp 2 for iphone 2019', suggesting a lure to download or access this software. The presence of both a malicious redirector and a link farm indicates a strong intent to direct users to harmful content.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=whatsapp+2+for+iphone+2019
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5665/9617/files/template_ieee_transactions_on_power_electronics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7730/4481/files/taylor_classical_mechanics_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3705/6411/files/asuran_theme_bgm_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_a361aed85c7d4476b4b6e4eb7910312d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_8a138a43bb7745c28abbf776d76caed3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7182f3_7bab98e9250742c580ed018b3e2b4680.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9f06f8_7761753b03544e8682b8ffe000559e48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7baf93_ea7080d9f7104f8e80ae52934ea2a868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9865/1288/files/backcountry_navigator_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6466/3704/files/excel_take_sheet_name_from_cell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/kabifupitozokaravuxeleded.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5ad9b255d5cf4ba5b5ac3a68487226bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f7e1_59565f80501441158c9de0f9f2bd103e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_420bbed42cdc4e83a9f1ea711b91d7d2.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_off000060d5.bin
b326bd922b635b073824023f399e8679e52d721a42d20f3da6d0486cd737c9a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D5 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000736c.bin
cd81f370f21b316d8831fcd7e88126ace0ca78e323590e938b96cc280a7caa14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x736C 11096 bytes