Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96e61d1b3cd19b7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9627fd8c871bf8c1a273fd1d94db2e97 SHA-1: a88449b806fe9bdef8fa3e728c3a743082c02782 SHA-256: 96e61d1b3cd19b7cd0f87f7ed979cf9bc7cece8ec621349c3a3d920d6dcc9b55
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The file is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign aiming to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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=digital+marketing+pdf+books
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e0eb0_764e8b79574d42e1b22da745f42b5f59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_f4909c89032f4b419ac9ea1558781872.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/384ea4_c632026e65304a1ea38124d43befbc6c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5366/1851/files/arabic_songs_without_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6312/7714/files/calidad_definicion_segun_autores.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3119/8886/files/66231010907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9022/1983/files/29566703781.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_45f32cf3ec2948f5b6d9871cdedec016.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da713ef5824e4835ada86ddc9f8d35a9.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_off000066b9.bin
fc126d09c5f2ecf0bab2836559415a7baad441fcb50a0cbac5305af1631f1ec3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B9 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000798a.bin
a6111e1fbe9b3a09977fc044fc9226c6bbbe71541342c6cfdfc7238b6063dedf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x798A 10544 bytes