Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae517c8acab74c77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 46ee468fd4b5f88168be98cca69b5dd1 SHA-1: 4097eec0e884efdbe083289d70176eaf7bc5e10c SHA-256: ae517c8acab74c77bc6ab6ce67e93938fbc14f321ebea6593f793d9363c5eee0
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 pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL found in the redirector link, suggesting a deliberate attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/pify?keyword=simple+html+email+template+for+outlook
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_c1fad223e2e84083bebee2f7e12d4264.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b916f4_c37642fd52734b31b3b26e98a5ff4799.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_11d84ab6547040dda1ee676f19f92710.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_396629ec99d94ffd808ba9b983161948.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cfe37_a4982ec08efe4378a01454a3a60bcb77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_baa8a104365144aca3b6f00fa7886710.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_e8aeca942fd04a9a91fd5531afef5f62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ba59804ab64eb4abdcbe0392892358.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_05e4132b5c6f4146a2f2761f79d39423.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599026_bf89d6ec765f4c689fb6f058bef29a4b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_f6d2851f99f74ecd90b80c67729d9490.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0c41_3c0951722b644109b2cb90f2c2d10e95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b5da7_2238ecfecd3f407391cabbe18f9c3e51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b07cb329512d4054949d76341b293a75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07e02c_6bd4236edeca4ba2a7fc9efa9e8a0192.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_114e179156c2407cb1e43f874dc41bff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f16bd_e5bc8130500f4fc1b42ace9762080cdf.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_off00007828.bin
8e5f99e22fc84be6094901728a54787f689e29d11c91fb16edfedffdf166c161
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7828 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000896e.bin
497f84bf26ce1a3378610258413a6b3f10496bc33fbf29fe1e934edf85edd87d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x896E 10200 bytes