Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217c4186bd11497d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 20:40:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 815e304172b1466e3d419f15b1cedd2c SHA-1: 6abf8cc2c3eae84f454db77255bf38c681010b4c SHA-256: 217c4186bd11497d8571928949e0125d8aa11ffaa9d169a8039107a0dc0b4268
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=a+twist+in+my+story+album'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as an album title, to entice users to click. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be redirection to a harmful site.

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/wix?keyword=a+twist+in+my+story+album
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_8cb060a259a9414584c4875a9ce1f376.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca5af8255dab4f77b418bf4e95e8d011.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1c47477d0a47479489360f4e2d25dbbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_363a21300852470bb82d5ec650e2785c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_e97dfb7932a242a2b9b358bb2f166a04.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/44549278989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9462/1862/files/bharat_gas_mobile_app.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aef5b7_ce617c892eb6484295e37a70285b5173.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b5da7_895f45a025b24e5fa646ae53f08a8d9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de3c9db0f874497da0122ed0da29be62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_001ca50aefdb4b19b522b7c6440b69ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e32576_0a38562a0b7746bf964798d10fc1c55e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7540/3936/files/bewifobesinesis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8393/0527/files/application_of_derivatives_word_problems_with_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3118/3016/files/basketball_rules_and_fouls.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_off00006215.bin
a02b414ceeacce05cf94fab3c7036fb2ed5c56b822a06de8af5fc844e3e6a826
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6215 4920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072b2.bin
7118cdf2bbeb73fe2a2b8e15ccc30d64d9eb9958d7f5a0d935efd63193d97ffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B2 10312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000095ee.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95EE 4324 bytes