Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4343599e84c956d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 09:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 929b2e975166ef62b019703d118e70ed SHA-1: 53b9dbd30d41e44d60530a28cebce930ebb6b239 SHA-256: 4343599e84c956d67d229aa4bf4c0b07ddfa8208798d97a3e448cd6a6d5da3d2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=jawbone+up+move+user+manual+pdf, which is likely used as a lure. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates the PDF contains a large number of external links, predominantly to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a broad distribution or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=jawbone+up+move+user+manual+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_5b9d51750b1a42059d19b83ad636c95c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_660b14e04af94f5cbbb47d4e424fedcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bd1c09_4b7e976037744f3b9e38f646c9ff3052.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_c142658dbca34d7fb03f192c4e30cbf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_202350c6c4b54632af88f8da9d74f51a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_f09f6b3c75aa435380c7454e010b5ef8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0511f5_e2207d815b5341998de691e0fc2f2cbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0adedf_2fa1dc9702d34bab9f1ecae69c8738f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6166c9_a46f4537a6c34dc3be03918546a236e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_809096bc45d647aabe6144a7a1001dca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_89fe9f99fef44e0dafc9c2bfd12f05ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39b8b4365f7e4d7295fc93e10f219f40.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0511f5_3098446aaaff4cc5927f826a4df4c43a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0ed17b457614172a03d70b814528e65.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_off000057db.bin
a3e27a9b2b7b3557dfba8552b82aaad6f0c8e5ed8b654e51fe21c35ad9e70417
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57DB 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a6e.bin
1c1946ec3c3ccc7aae5f1daf2ef9ae9db14380af5e6aac43241e49c273d38eec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A6E 9956 bytes