Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1298981721885dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:08:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4664a29a019ea7bfda29cdb9f82d2177 SHA-1: b1e33cc4c278b3f117e155dcb53f65d91ffbf01e SHA-256: d1298981721885dd53dcaf9c9d6f970e7a05c781e6402464349fff9493566378
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.ru/wix?keyword=hallmark+keepsake+ornament+value+gui'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', which is flagged as a PDF SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains fragments of the redirector URL and references to Hallmark ornaments, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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.ru/wix?keyword=hallmark+keepsake+ornament+value+gui
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eb62629bff6a4d9289a901c5dbe4dd28.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_012066c4100a4d72aa42819e8794940d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e7110c20f72341d9a60270351c8b1b8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c53fce6494ad447ebf461da4fc0fe626.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e16aa_9fdd2fdcf9524f8d88bba1173d648cd9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76a275f151d0484d8f8e58e3225e0123.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ae4f811cf4746fdb013b52745dcf53f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_58663ce709c448bca39a3026dc301f13.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e1e97d7380f4a078b6681330c3be851.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a70d14e4017c4f3e9b472845f8e7e8a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cfed0368144b4d54898b2bde364a1518.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_b75d9c998ebb4514a10cb53136fd3fea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_67adf036ac4b4f70bf7c8a81db2765d6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5999/2990/files/where_to_stream_fringe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2971/6374/files/osu_how_to_download_skins.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7874/6261/files/18145375750.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_off000047fe.bin
50f4582577c3865732f6723c3d49faa595fd5ad6420540dcc1bf4470cf6ef1f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47FE 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059af.bin
ad89353d29c3261d863fab25c3262543fbc580ebeac025606aa0cbfb6d621e89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59AF 9184 bytes