Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 552c5669647b9955…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 40c8db27ac88a70d0a6f192dbe8c89e9 SHA-1: 3838753eb55c9f3a7479163c20dfa06eaa9dcb30 SHA-256: 552c5669647b9955ea97c675d8ed91adc7dd38fc56c070276d54d5e76ec60c92
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=jim+hill+high+school'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which resolve to the 'static.usrfiles.com' domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to 'Jim Hill High School', suggesting a social engineering lure. The primary intent appears to be directing the user to the malicious redirector.

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.com/wix?keyword=jim+hill+high+school
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e28ad10048174f96ad44a077dbc55c73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9dda13_04eda1a73eae40bfaeb73122d19a596b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d6130db66aeb4747bc5fd1d2e16091de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_155ba0f02f494e728781041923348362.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fbdc8e6b6902448cb83e89134be9ba4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_ce84cc670dbb481dabed4227060c40e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0aab01_488d61952e3e4232b9268607ee9d1a07.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77941b_63e4e29dde58420288c723be38f49171.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97368a_cead347cae16499db88c2c20fd61c40a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39ba440767614faface86cffa9614acd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/cambridge_igcse_physics_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7743/5556/files/vakodose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4536/3610/files/86360509345.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_2259b9f5ce5c4e60b7153549397fcdaf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_47cb28e8024c4444b39f400b600d84f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fab0fb2f8284ee8a177317f2dddbf43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40512e_b734596211104b69b3c0dbe85a796d05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_71abadd34b074b6fbf1a82c59012821b.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_off000059a2.bin
8126216f7a86af3c1ebdaada8bd556c3e454c6b38bab1a8f97e28e09cb6446f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59A2 4896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a2d.bin
fdac234461a5d4faca5828277e3e23ceb3df84a6d389bf6a081843190556a572
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2D 10368 bytes