Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9fc46fc2347cca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e505c8aed5a4bb37e1a4f73eb9a91a9 SHA-1: 4291c64174167877ef69a4d55d9ce9f2b13a3115 SHA-256: e9fc46fc2347cca4f087ec5455d4a532426e5c705fc1279d1f9f63ee098dba23
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=accounting+information+systems+14th+edition+citation`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious redirector URL and other PDF links. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential for social engineering beyond just a link click.

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.cc/pify?keyword=accounting+information+systems+14th+edition+citation
    • http://files.survivehc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813357/duzaxamavara.pdf
    • http://lereva.sweetmessyfaith.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407005/lulok_dimobul_fafenevikonoz_bokabokobo.pdf
    • http://zuzur.be-boosted.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814297/kuzoxage-duvuduzadiluzor-biraxokenaxe.pdf
    • http://files.barefootcustomknives.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814624/bixajolafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6678/4932/files/facebook_for_pc_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4621/3544/files/68070280406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9430/2115/files/13035687962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/gimoxaxivazevivoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9998/5822/files/43020025822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6180/files/gobikoketi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4542/8122/files/74344185916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4245/6231/files/winubazizov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3694/1215/files/16620458210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4136/6951/files/83359340138.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_off00006ecb.bin
94a27e631c108f8dc68af51ba288d8f7096e96f39cd9b36e6c2ac4bb69a2e6f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECB 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081d9.bin
392ba88e37a79f9c8c63c2352e2105992a9ce512d3e3b012905a8b0c62f82881
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81D9 11136 bytes