Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d1981179ae7a325…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 065e711ae7bc1b0895929ea1a45d4a18 SHA-1: dee56ab0b049bc512abd884d57012104458c8ecb SHA-256: 2d1981179ae7a325abc5c2128892571a49557765c4802ce9268adbfbe35c451b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on static.usrfiles.com. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Incident report form worksafe' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.ru/wix?keyword=incident+report+form+worksafe
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/biological_anthropology_fuentes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2718/3269/files/puladotenepujiludatip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6900/files/the_dilbert_principle_scott_adams.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b80405_f819983ebb434a5e93a290a37e3462f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5def78df6d9a4c24803373e69d6f63c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2022674e470743d2b4a94ddb18289e38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_c7770e95e5614daca45c8e501070c070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5679/8615/files/khadya_suraksha_apil_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2944/5273/files/tutorial_inventor_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/81109015940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1096/5147/files/forevupe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_c2096b5efeff475691e0cd3a0491e618.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_f782fc18c5654bf095e48342006ed080.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc98cc_457d34f4e58d4da6ad6424af57fb015c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eebae45992ab439ba4e4491924dd2d86.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_off000057cc.bin
7a3f0d0ac4437b276fd50c2eb23ddcacac61078e2bee6c9226823df6cbbd7930
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57CC 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a0b.bin
d605b3ec19a3914928a742747e206640100c9547c55de800762c24d76a907df7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A0B 10716 bytes