Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be1254be1f24bfe8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-09-06 00:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 890d948783fa98d560750233e6ffc15f SHA-1: 51f4f0fc53a82855e9e5b35830ca807aa78cc291 SHA-256: be1254be1f24bfe8bdbcc2c7c5d26d14794d267e1603e9c115e5640557c69786
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its extensive use of external links, characteristic of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic firing indicates a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=one+piece+brook+song+violin+sheet'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's a primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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.link/pify?keyword=one+piece+brook+song+violin+sheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/17beed_eb2659c1de544a92b6e5ed69cadfef97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/440e29_6cf6cee7e24c4e00a611cdbc063c6e32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_80a441a66ba54b29ae01c63eddcb9d9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e98895_f451bbff46404a218ce176714f322f0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_639c19c5580b4c3eb1cbd6f2d6618ab6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_5c409c4144b14b289ff1071ec9eb6ec3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9df9d6_34ed86f2233842338a7f245a3f439748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/the_hobbit_audiobook_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6402/4479/files/suzozitusinuwozoluwe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eddc50_dcf544f7ca67453ba1644b63094f6e97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db93e9_474085fd2ecc4528806548647c734d42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca09c_a2c7d01033fe449aa6f5d4f3d63a9f72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2994dd_10a79e577f33412496f912a4fe9f0426.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_34ec3f0abf2742a288af1c5a16de0bbe.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_off000043e2.bin
448701b4cc4e813f640415b12b032cfbf311929b6df5ede52089fd0680840255
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43E2 3908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000051a8.bin
fce7bcc608bf720501462b74a3cda6338dac7e16424dbdafcaeb3e0002de4935
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51A8 5276 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000639c.bin
3211d49fd3b04f935eb983a0f01a4dc67fff67b5d8e4187f3fcb7ba76d5ac4af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x639C 9684 bytes