Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 389dd8522dc825b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ad393d3047882bd2c5a09b6aad95330 SHA-1: 73c992ee03d7dcf095f42170ea5c95dcfefdc83f SHA-256: 389dd8522dc825b4cb649b8b84d4e2f74a89607daf0561f38cc13c4dfee37e58
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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=a+history+of+western+music+10th+edition+pdf'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to mask the primary 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.com/wix?keyword=a+history+of+western+music+10th+edition+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9374a7_152cf24236fa485b87647bcbb52f68ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6da380_dbc270d357c84b139a053ef2de7c6d97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b88d3958e0544203acd54e37eeedbea4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e89944775ce4cac9cbbc9645d74763d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d6608b009dd43d7ad134d5df9a149a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b9a69bcc4ee8492594ddbdeac6519153.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_3ddc0629801d47208ff208d99413ca0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa25e1f126944930bdbefbf180af2a56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_5ca1c5b8890a489c9e965a7006d306ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_d58fc77a996242f78c4895dc6c6b17b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab922d_b885a9d1091a434d99e6186b9434faba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a771bd_f1202a15c3f94a72a06aa16ee3a42008.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_190acbb82eac498386465b418d22fd8d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_52cc22bbb8c04c398fb28627c88c81bb.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_off0000458e.bin
6f0dc5b09420ada87cd0edb85f213debdf3b671baa6deea1f4e44c2584d19ffb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x458E 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057e4.bin
36b59a0356bf1982eed41e2c8e40a7ae5293ac0e97844413dcd28c785d6c1d00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57E4 9320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000077c1.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C1 4324 bytes