Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eb8e0604d819283…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 18:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62073aece6303aec8b6f8d61cafab18b SHA-1: af9ae669c9733433253a8888c2c39783da886248 SHA-256: 3eb8e0604d819283594d8ff7999058f4d2ff21ce6d3ed6f2024be621878ec778
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=liver+disease+nice+guidelines, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to medical terms and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to external content.

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.link/pify?keyword=liver+disease+nice+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/538d67_c8dba1a3bf8642b3b0404c65bb7c2274.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ce946_bcf7a28d87f544b4bc5c40f289198b59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_544412aa7e0b4791ba4aaedbb08bf6fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_2da03cab08584f018338d504decf70ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d21c0_c645ebc44ed64d989dbb623e56de571d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2398/1979/files/nugaju.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2751c_77e29b805d664c31904a6f46a600de34.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f6d71_6bdc7702c1e048f8b4e8ddbe67d6a093.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_f1501c7bf66e4771ab1eb651ad8b608a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_24166735d6944f78b3d35c0ddf9eec45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca9457cc5666422eb9b1e19050ef0c05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_980f40002c0c4816bbf0386f5dddd3fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_868939375ed64bd6a9003e8e10d0b9e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451a43_f7c591ed252a4b138e3472310ef177a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/469aea_ed89cb7d53ab4f1b956f33411de4369e.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_off000071f3.bin
89abd0b7246a3e491beac5c592b39ac568272f34ec34941594b7a2a220ccc1cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F3 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000836b.bin
04abd951c7defef73239b5bdee8196eb0b451517c3caa154ecd6febcffb25eb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x836B 10068 bytes