Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c0c5e13b6ea354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.5 KB Created: 2020-09-07 20:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aa58567bfdbec7675cf23427969a8722 SHA-1: 8251d804186c7407b396a90663464fdf6ca86ad5 SHA-256: a9c0c5e13b6ea35448cc7e242f07748370c63f6883fedad4811c650396116f78
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=gastroenterology+and+hepatology+author+guidelines`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to academic guidelines and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the link. The presence of a redirector and a link farm indicates an attempt to direct users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.me/wix?keyword=gastroenterology+and+hepatology+author+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e0cb9_203ba9e0f7cb4ae8b15aa030b33972e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_7611f18773b14b8aa15a46ba8e00dc33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_36c2e692f0e74208865a16ed9a5ecc95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6a44d8_90059339f1684f168a378b1c0da3b93d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2203/8686/files/alone_boy_hd_wallpaper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2718/5311/files/invisible_inc_beginners_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2617/7438/files/minecraft_seed_map_viewer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9078/8000/files/23334657404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7243/6889/files/31688886290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8549/files/58963857244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6671/0426/files/49719971973.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_83b6684a161f4a0e87d42e589c540d7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad56bf27fbdd4f50aa7d76d2fb30a763.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d20b110532c74c6eb7e66faf85c44d35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/edb4a7_8f1fb652f62541db958c3afa35ea36dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc6899_406f92afc8104128a88b3e1d2e1a614c.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a3ba.bin
757c24b7d42f372ec41f4cf9b7f223da3a78ea45dba8b94f924949b398790c88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3BA 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b585.bin
905dc525acc58cb8e3669d2def98b4871cac90812ff5b87253aa9345f257d1b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB585 10912 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000da9d.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9D 4324 bytes