Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 416cb9648ddaea74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-09-20 13:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8849b6e8881f8cfd17ed938a9ebd89f1 SHA-1: b049053fe810bf73ecb247bd464d711aa4c1bf1c SHA-256: 416cb9648ddaea74b5541545a6b32f02cbfca85dc1c7c67656ea00fa006870fb
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 external links, a technique often used to create SEO spam or to direct users to malicious websites. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=aha+bls+provider+manual+2018+pdf+free', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a phishing page or a site distributing malware.

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/wix?keyword=aha+bls+provider+manual+2018+pdf+free
    • https://8cb179d0-6706-436e-aa91-19cc2182e7e3.filesusr.com/ugd/6d59ab_080758666bb6472e9e3d3c62c8fc94c3.pdf?index=true
    • https://53264663-e932-4927-9b91-1fdf9aa4ce87.filesusr.com/ugd/f08e01_c6dc6d370f674dd8a763cd4e73edbfe0.pdf?index=true
    • https://3f3f5094-f659-45dd-8568-696ef19019c2.filesusr.com/ugd/717a42_e4e06a4eeec249cb861fa6735da7f08a.pdf?index=true
    • https://50fcb49b-c956-471a-9f7a-1cdf988f3cea.filesusr.com/ugd/7d2910_5ead001c7af34151980a989c65baf651.pdf?index=true
    • https://4650ef01-d207-45ee-9c68-b54d6d258204.filesusr.com/ugd/808cd0_a48b75613f724af09e0d1acbf0f9710e.pdf?index=true
    • https://60eb93e9-34bb-4441-8cce-61e32f3fa112.filesusr.com/ugd/5438e3_f833389d1250477a831960f5ecc1acfc.pdf?index=true
    • https://d0e04152-c388-4c9b-8840-f784c62b9d9b.filesusr.com/ugd/ea2f88_49a0b13ca3024fb3961e470552bfc237.pdf?index=true
    • https://cea58f86-8030-4cbf-82b5-fafc6d4dbb7e.filesusr.com/ugd/d5cf39_eb0dc3eebb194a38add21cae4ea6216f.pdf?index=true
    • https://54793b99-e42a-46ad-86f0-b2807b9ee1dd.filesusr.com/ugd/2dbf5a_e80bcbf1865b4529be2774d2c5736919.pdf?index=true
    • https://b99795bc-7ee9-4260-9f3f-c785ec5afa32.filesusr.com/ugd/d43733_ce755458ff494124b640431312bff5ad.pdf?index=true
    • https://99b3f5ad-19db-4511-b076-e7bb207ba312.filesusr.com/ugd/4bb103_4b1962407f764769b6473d416f0ed81e.pdf?index=true
    • https://4a24f5f7-e588-421b-9a75-acfa12a37273.filesusr.com/ugd/6d59ab_79f41026ffce4667b057acebfdec5f34.pdf?index=true
    • https://8d9f95a0-2e1a-4876-a0f7-90beaef62f8e.filesusr.com/ugd/d90490_2150517b9694469abfceb27f45a58f3f.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off0000574f.bin
2a17f0db62a338642ce69104417124be99d2aae7fc4ac14a3df915fc469808ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x574F 5988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b8e.bin
fa8ed820668b3af980ddc7c6bc0ec0268f63e3691b5731239165b6b6e7a44605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8E 10336 bytes