Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 367c62ccb6f0e3d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:37:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62b846e8381f9557853df2aff0465a66 SHA-1: 717c92486a3ae1b2e555a4577b6c643520120c84 SHA-256: 367c62ccb6f0e3d62a1e0e890fdba16f6181b7d11b1e218fe55994607190d1f2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=black+queer+studies+a+critical+anthology+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector 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.com/wix?keyword=black+queer+studies+a+critical+anthology+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_0993ec2740f5424abd44e856e2ab7722.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cfbfd2_2a5126763cef4e0db76e8edfe2390bbb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c4e3d1d74f947e1ae4d67666191a89f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affaa6_8ea504ad5fb643f1ac3f1b71cb43a6ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_947eab0c829a4592a34ce21e14ef09e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f146a7b574214dc48fe5ebdc21903352.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_98cf75c4ac0843dd9799308d11f9bf3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_2226b8dc04ee4dbbb3c1db6684a97294.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79cb75_f3709566ddfa4942a27ad4c5d98157b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e11ca8e0172f4fe2b578c08cd5c2c96b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_681f2cc7fc5c4ddc8bff164975e67588.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e32c2_5b2286ad906b491c88d3288e0f2c8dbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/95089d_1df05b030d3b4aee871a4e98c5aea11d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d400c_77dcd26d3838488298025972ddbe6506.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59de6ac12912479a83686689179d656e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_da933a59b6394310b10c7630b5967ec7.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_off000056df.bin
d70b72e45e78e6efc98ba75b4dc4f51068812c1742c079ad31b403e3bf5c901e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56DF 5756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a7c.bin
0fa3092134646923aca687ec0b6d5acb1500a4ec76f8fc2a16d676515e87be83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A7C 10244 bytes