Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e44ffb74d46daf7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:07:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5933803728afe2f1eb40579733c6242f SHA-1: 2feb5838a197c1349ded8ccbf05436cdce7ddb30 SHA-256: e44ffb74d46daf7ef3311df7978d5a0ce3e871808fbf58a144cd271ec33459b0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title and body text referencing a "Fannie Mae default servicing guide" to entice users. It embeds multiple links, with one critical heuristic identifying a redirector link to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fannie+mae+default+servicing+guide`. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attack aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for 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=fannie+mae+default+servicing+guide
    • http://fovavuf.bookofcenturies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637789/fapal.pdf
    • http://files.bodegabayhouse.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741334/kezaxolivegekem.pdf
    • http://files.tracytruesdale.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775102/fc0bd038b5.pdf
    • http://files.headlandparkartistprecinct.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383493/fepekefobakusas_wagelel_nujomezudilagol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7777/9100/files/jotovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0055/1845/files/cavatina_solo_guitar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4940/files/soluciones_hipotonicas_isotonicas_hipertonicas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7879/4920/files/haeckel_s_three_kingdom_classification.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6965/1606/files/twitter_cover_page_template_psd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1461/7250/files/22456931201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8740/4968/files/jesidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9476/1877/files/72012713671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8790/9284/files/luzovodo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6821/9799/files/liwatidub.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_off00005113.bin
268ba874addafa7af59f12e7f67ecee87570fccee5b68e433a52e7fb40ef7bce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5113 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000626d.bin
c2b2dca49fe518b52e6f1c58ca11e8bb7ca441b1911fefcd4d3cd2102b4c37a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626D 8688 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000800a.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x800A 4324 bytes