Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9db4546bdc677f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 05:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d7e08e78c2779d7e85e1262bc05f569 SHA-1: 9544c58cb8292921135f8cf2ce78e59c230883de SHA-256: 9db4546bdc677f5bf4d24f4591dc4cfa70c03757f4553c4772edde6d4ce931e2
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=programming+the+world+wide+web+pdf'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=programming+the+world+wide+web+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_08bd2b72b5354446996667fdaa216b2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_096d39e8cff6457194166db2b973fe61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_117d75b6444e4070a4938bab2526fbed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bde519b93aa7410cbf80b3194cbfbfd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2bfe7550c034fc0a0d9026a4d0f3553.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3001/0273/files/apostrophes_for_possession_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4627/9080/files/81576812042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4396/2532/files/formato_riesgo_de_trabajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0863/7602/files/payroll_check_template.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0c9fc0cac2149649eced41ed819b38c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_98e690e6f0534ebfbdd6ce7f5ef469b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbc5d4d42aef426d9b0325a200230972.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_730f6af2580a4863a0cbe49c81939df6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_29e5d4c05720453e9c6e518904891e01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_642773ac15ce4b6585d5d3bfa5f34a20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fceb8642e2314bf49b72c69d942b1f56.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_off00005b04.bin
73e0d2efbab89d5b1f312216825c889517f7dab0ef238e159865bd8c71e69615
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B04 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d9c.bin
9594e1c75f60098f04f4b058a66119fd2fcd855c751107629cbf7a0b0966420e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9C 10088 bytes