Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53a4f0f07b469e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 12:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7de255ba29e988f8068975fd5f3dfdb1 SHA-1: 23b81292543e549cdfda3ff4d34eec598103f620 SHA-256: 53a4f0f07b469e7e7867db84ebdd7b33d9a2ca759f66fd9daa4f8719705c8a62
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=social+studies+reading+comprehension'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous links, many of which point to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several benign URLs from the 'static.usrfiles.com' domain. This suggests a social engineering lure designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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.ru/wix?keyword=social+studies+reading+comprehension
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_684958933dfa4bbda71c88296d9a5cd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4cf83f491a9749a1b00babc78116eb85.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d1dc9_17e8afdebe90440796a0accdc3f3e864.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_0a688902d1514a5e8097240173983c75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_8e7ea9d35b9c44fb9aa0acdb6da005e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_93101a807d464f42903c65c8a4de4a78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b28561_393a9db05b504d12a143a803c9760dc2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea5d7b_7202fb43532b41f9ab7064d4aa4de1c4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce5d00_2d0c3e4935164bff945462f768145ce0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fcd7010f44864e0495c381b9c7c8127f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_95f15af14a6e45dc9b0eb3b28baa5df3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8758/3650/files/transformers_megatron_autobot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3337/7440/files/ditazazogegasetisek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5477/5702/files/de_mthuda_blissful_day_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0175/6323/files/shoulder_king_and_country_lyrics.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006664.bin
a0e2a35c0847e2a7abdbc5464f4e49a3f5a182e3d305fd9260770e2347ab96f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6664 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000791e.bin
75a20073d1355d72a533734b17b4a63a18c25516f99e2dc54b013c173da527a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791E 10852 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009d23.bin
436641947e2d9e0bebbccd1ec2c71d05ceb78c9941d06bdfc50d0b7acf9b0360
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D23 17288 bytes