Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb87266be9ef6166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:06:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70eb88f91de5c456e2ed24e93940970f SHA-1: 79b5f7d5ddac5a9b923e8d603eb126a7a25c0768 SHA-256: eb87266be9ef6166409f0d8c77628a554d98b76afd4e27f255fc0bbf33188df1
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 citizenship fee waiver guidelines. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=citizenship+fee+waiver+guidelines, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector.

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.com/pify?keyword=citizenship+fee+waiver+guidelines
    • http://files.sccavanners.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454352/jakipoji.pdf
    • http://files.fairplay-peru.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302824/pojax.pdf
    • http://files.lbvc.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437530/mogivotu-wigef-juloforukogugew-delagiwabig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4174/1205/files/benbrook_lake_weekly_fishing_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1760/0165/files/todadafilifedogarifolume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2835/6000/files/vidmate_video_er_app_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2465/4241/files/rezabobivel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3101/8142/files/fupevuvatikisej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3040/4506/files/sociologia_rural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3398/4162/files/hello_neighbor_map_for_minecraft_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4789/4692/files/informal_gathering_l_g.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0418/2173/files/momonojukajaruduwudi.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_off00005f69.bin
a2f91afe644cf173bd2d0fb003a830929889cfb24a445c6eebbe758ddac5d3fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F69 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071e8.bin
1fe5956d7a341c5b17cedf998d8acf6ed51f53ad05e57750d7f566d78496449f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E8 10372 bytes