Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3fa7a52bd544fb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2020-09-04 19:40:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 142bca0d12674d8d17f0f9fb74c83fac SHA-1: 5e8b58200c885c702262a1b8ca29581a7a48ce73 SHA-256: b3fa7a52bd544fb465a0241af179569e91f7fd2509cd0aca2fd573b77d178ed3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external PDF link farm, with one URL identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that suggests an urgency lure, likely to encourage clicks on the provided links. The primary malicious link identified is ttraff.link, which redirects to a page related to 'normal pressure hydrocephalus treatment guidelines'. The file also contains numerous links to static.usrfiles.com, which appear to be part of the link farm.

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.link/wix?keyword=normal+pressure+hydrocephalus+treatment+guidelines
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_14b475ec78654d88aaeb1d16f8aaa06b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_df91d12a4ba445c097c92ed8210a5781.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b1b16e_dac4315f1f6f4616a4c275c269d3a022.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_dcde245d85634fc3872a98b793ec7c09.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9301/6222/files/49257392778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2878/1988/files/blooming_garden_game.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_61c77273ab3b4e3cb3407d070dda0e52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cf28d_df1a60a0d40943fe825279a1fca79d5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/909b15_07ea54bba1e349ba8bf0234d1f02a402.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/529dbf_ec8ed3bcad534a9caaf774a57b38a6c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_6abb2593158e47adb678755a62f0ce90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c60f0e16c4c7435696cc43e21fbc263b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_3f3ed00b99334ed58f030f80a46ec9d9.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_off0000e7c7.bin
3ae56fa8a1e93ca984109e191b4e18d8c8e276aecba189c5def4d903b08ad827
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C7 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa28.bin
fc012fe901d3d03204e52e02ce3098841fddf27a8fdcb99479cb5d7bb79737d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA28 13800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001258d.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258D 4324 bytes