Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a0fcaaa19353dc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-09-06 18:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7facc6595abc8d12a5ada682fe71132c SHA-1: 386cda073522b51bb8b6c6a80da2ddedf54de29b SHA-256: 3a0fcaaa19353dc009d346aa5cbe8c2935ec465ad76627531185ecb3e3a051ee
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/pify?keyword=permeable+pavements+recommended+design+guidelines'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign designed to lure users to malicious content. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, characteristic of a link farm, further supporting the malicious intent.

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.me/pify?keyword=permeable+pavements+recommended+design+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_d2cf53b1afd849d4a264a600904ce023.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_e2f90ba1226047709e2cfb32008c4b42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d9a50_dc672b50bdcd4e62a5ba29393f564525.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e42c35_3958988b73e5444a93d1e5879d00ea52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/136d07_c3a91be37101478b88bab6125197f97a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0399/2485/files/dufelatewid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0293/6992/files/vubuduwulunaler.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_7b2ec0adb59b4a209bedb0e702ac74e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64ccf810d82c4e95b00fd7b0f7cf879f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f08e01_67a3308eec06401d87feea4b2f9c5917.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_64c113c0bcf64d2da68d8cfa6e0ca171.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e475a1fbbc348a99f365c7fb168bdc7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_ccb0a7d74bcb48a9b3c6cb2f86830f11.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_off00004d17.bin
abc7bea4a9f952044f7ef52fbe04a42297f9c1bd79a5c0c0f6f3e76894fde02b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D17 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006003.bin
11c431f77d4c9cf20fc8d9191477c5bac756e11164c3c576f71f175d0c87357e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6003 9500 bytes