Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37cfd2c921daaeb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-09-08 16:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4fc5c287754ce4ab63221eec1048b0f5 SHA-1: 51cafe4b464b87808dfceee2679f746cc2174f8e SHA-256: 37cfd2c921daaeb5ca14bbd8c068b9c273f895ffb25a84dd6a38004c81167c4f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.club, which is disguised as a weather report search result. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attempt to direct the user to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious behavior is the redirection to the suspicious 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.club/wix?keyword=greenville+south+carolina+weather+report
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b80405_e8541cc6b24e40c7b860bd33ce23ded7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_2f24ad2479e441bb84f11f51a89fad55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21a131_5423493a4b5343488469572bdbd14ead.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b3bc21_2a6072dc942f4024901b3178d03c84ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4ea6c_72afc320e7c7456383c07804eb1fc40c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_e41e950e8c1146adb060066a92fd68fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_0f3415a8909e4f8b99cfc8a3fe596938.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6bf5b_ffcf787467cc4f5ebe8d18ecd6e30b17.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1715bf_bd7e84cff01a475caa5fdfa1dff839f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e533a_8089fdf0e3a74950862edd81855ce5d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1318525437d04026a36bb8fd533469f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca40a1fc49a2463e946423faa3ff8284.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1b7c00_c8db24b077cc4672951821c8d39c7be5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/122077_fb1b17ed84f7472cbe4309cd290848ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_6554cd280dd1406a97e96706a2e970ce.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_off00004ee4.bin
734f0ae3fb2f4ad928aba77994bb5bb75a2bd78f179bbf1967b5c50c60158870
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EE4 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060ae.bin
09e0681c113c35f141e222d990d1acac0a2b67dba832cb3d8cf3b199ff18c51d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AE 10032 bytes