Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99b13f9c3d0083b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6d31885125b67d7bc889aa6990f28600 SHA-1: 09c500575960bf0d3646037c4c7cf98a46c8c1a8 SHA-256: 99b13f9c3d0083b24d3cb2accf44010179377e3b6d98f3a3e1815dd43c2a1807
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=patrick+marber+closer+play+pdf'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, with many external PDF links hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The presence of urgency language further supports the lure tactic.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.cc/wix?keyword=patrick+marber+closer+play+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2bedbac563294d1dbf8d5c7ac7b561d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8a102dd05cd640c09c166b36a8101432.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_0052e449e607434e800db164ffb27960.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0286dd_3bd5af34f14841a6bb0dbdb0e1f6a838.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0bcf16_9bf0d9bcdae74df2bf36abdeac8ce450.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_46767bff0fd94b68872f9490bc26bd62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_292d29bc73d944a7890ccbff5581e50a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_60940eb2bc23462fa5745f3f05580fed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_559675a73b904d7ba612f4eb3e05f2b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d6608b009dd43d7ad134d5df9a149a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_547b6c285d3e4beda19b1578de8cca8a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1661/3014/files/understanding_viruses_3rd_edition_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7127/4146/files/cvc_words_with_pictures_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6558/files/present_and_past_tense_exercises.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_off00007e55.bin
7e78e2d0640255e5f1cccfd15ebca63c7e0f8c223cfe5b97d4fa714128653605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E55 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000914e.bin
03608e98e3ed964a722b5ca380c436691824eb93be6e905aa457ecd200c97a02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x914E 10720 bytes