Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d48ad7ce695bfbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-09-07 06:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 538d6c6fdab746c5e3eac300ed57ab20 SHA-1: be9983bcd18d9010bdb330c813de4fe11912f4e3 SHA-256: 1d48ad7ce695bfbcf6c564b7b57a3239bccffbc15f386092d66308dc00561be8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=aadhar+card+correction+form++in+tamil'. This URL is designed to lure users into clicking, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com', which is flagged as a PDF link farm. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the lure text and the malicious URL.

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.me/wix?keyword=aadhar+card+correction+form++in+tamil
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_2cd8d28696f44967adb767434679f19b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddb60a_f42228d825a6472ab36979f544d2015d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/485053_0bc3674c3339415fb427fc996a78c592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2588/1498/files/articulacion_de_lisfranc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5919/1712/files/38319693582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7492/0347/files/99366095498.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9245/9925/files/rugby_world_cup_pools_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5298/8566/files/fishing_report_san_diego_point_loma.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/594ae5_03b570cd9e594ec29d434381ae00010c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/113e89_4ad02ee8271a43959e1a0c67a03a00e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1acd69_760dfeb3afe4470990851ddb1f90e3b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77941b_3364f67b738e4d639ecaa4ba72c64c5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79cb75_052ea10429df403b865442c4a5e57a36.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bca44_701c02f347464a999913e177057bdd31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8dba5_935dec8ab90443fea9ebe64ac73b544a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a8cc01_c4fd451e74e6413bbc04ae45dd2cfa73.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_off00006441.bin
8b5a36f5a00453e1ec1eaa6d89b62fdb2556828b83699a44141588326c9f5bfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6441 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000755a.bin
e4d54f903de65f6bf3931ffcc44523ad6f39f8ba0544590989f383a5e5cf4c9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x755A 10244 bytes