Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4192bf1c4c46524…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 486f34caf8955549d5f76dc76c2167b4 SHA-1: 0a24ecd0bd013c8aaf91efc551ee5b59d37716ee SHA-256: e4192bf1c4c465249ec550ac119354e6ce372319e61ebd7ec7f0cb6405ebab21
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as 'client facing skills interview questions and answers'. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=client+facing+skills+interview+questions+and+answers', leads to a link farm of 15 other PDF documents hosted on Shopify. The primary purpose appears to be to drive traffic to this link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=client+facing+skills+interview+questions+and+answers
    • http://files.andyfowlie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410662/6104328.pdf
    • http://files.bigtrecreation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/fasezojozixuf.pdf
    • http://files.kvwilsonauthor.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437864/sopenivoduma_mogaxudijixi_xomumabekemeboj.pdf
    • http://gidamud.monicamillerdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740072/1431015d1ab2e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3032/files/manufacturing_business_plan_proposal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4818/0634/files/merirosanivovowabevelav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9495/0559/files/56754804062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4495/3509/files/alan_walker_ignite_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2067/1384/files/tupivupisupelaboneso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9699/7030/files/chakravyuha_audio_songs_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2613/6743/files/wudikogowirub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/52303745465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9370/4356/files/tedezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1585/files/51206752247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2279/files/18456925935.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007e5b.bin
9afd9536b7106703eefcc20525cf92c68e5207f59b1f8f89cd7846035f5e7fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E5B 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000090f5.bin
7ea05e53700b5aa4a9f55b0912a3b72d1e62ad64c511e9ed6a92943149670526
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90F5 10352 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b462.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB462 4324 bytes