Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b69e783f58976ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-09-03 07:27:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 537a2b3434c0ec749ad8979a8fd8d130 SHA-1: f3ccb5d72490386d45c0ed70602cfc923d37f100 SHA-256: 7b69e783f58976ff881f7e63274723be58a2541ee3e6c6a5201c3f4bea5251e5
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=anti+malware+software+free++filehippo', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure for users searching for free anti-malware software. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery.

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.club/wix?keyword=anti+malware+software+free++filehippo
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_68aaf091456a485db9f60bbd3da9c8db.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_73f7bd7ed82d4b919fbbb9e92776153f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_53e40e2e180c4e739705f3d735645492.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ef0c3_64cdc7a5488048dd8e5431e0148182ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b47706_9ec80cda9e40424ca989b72786dbd138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/1561/7950/files/49211467805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6517/0334/files/22406588111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zudofujavulasosajawigubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6412/3814/files/tupoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8818/1400/files/jineduxizes.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_092028daea5648509239b87e8fcb764d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fafc38_7aca53ac6c984d35ba05fd595a41a44f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_ea6c0cf9d1a4419fb701817a84dbb0d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_adb4c5ca603b46a090577ecb4d5e73c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_045183bceaf74cf68dffff3fc6ce4cb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ef0dc_3cfe75904e2c46e3b922cbdb44f22ce3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0966f76519d5435fb58d3384d9b6cfcb.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_off00008163.bin
3cb0e2ed8e1ae699ddc2e805406bd703e910727b34a2518ad247cddb3d7c8571
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8163 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009309.bin
3f6bf2c39c921d9db376c7da3356b76db51ae17ce7b3878a6daa923b1b21a919
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9309 10420 bytes