Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50f817a1d5af69d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 09:45:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32a77e1b0011eb4c071089665a743360 SHA-1: 6ecd0aff2d1378d4d76bc0ec89400e61c6a980e4 SHA-256: 50f817a1d5af69d9a7cb1a7c3f62c95a408620b4d60f19c6069d0bdc82aaf0c2
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.me', which is used in conjunction with a lure impersonating 'Credit Suisse'. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and mentions 'Credit Suisse brand guidelines pdf', reinforcing the phishing pretext. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential for further social engineering.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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=credit+suisse+brand+guidelines+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e0cb9_615bb4b07d484b3da4cf96dfa52931fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_b5459ad37bf14fa281431b361db24c07.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c836c3_30f5e2dd519740f88a889f7cf2543896.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_0017c942c2c54ce5a607fa1bb0a4c616.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_d34bb2f3e9704e9da4b86bcaa64543fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6cd13bc5671c41d9bfb1df8e0549c6cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2cce5fc364844c828ead48127fa3a40c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4a829_e9c3914694f64a61b69e0f477af0dae1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a893d86f6e4d418c9d2891a3216b00b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b972d5_9baa707676e34bdfa947d53bfa63f301.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6203b9_fe34524bb3b64c75aec4a5a64022af1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f7e1_84efa8637d36444c8c21f1cdc5ef0461.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_0bc10030f1a44aa4ba67ebde026c5a97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_5827d60e58364bdfa1b9e5653deb6d1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66dc8210f9214acfbe9ec9d284a283d5.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_off0000e2f6.bin
e5a8aa4c62604807ddb62a019245e1c79d85663c9a97fe3c8db7e22c30d54afc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F6 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4dc.bin
0eda1a817c64e551c9e301483d5865c6d24b81c981ac6bb048997b33c5e93bcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DC 10936 bytes