Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d13fc1debc39cd1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-09-11 18:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6c4734a4517934c38e44c4363347be99 SHA-1: 65cc14a88391213f2f38acb5492347dd7fc61f16 SHA-256: d13fc1debc39cd1ab46730f728dfbd7e4d8f77fe6bd99b3f3725a9f7478eff43
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=android+studio+installation+failed'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign designed to trick users into clicking through by presenting a seemingly relevant technical issue. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'Android studio installation failed', reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, while some are marked benign, suggests a link farm or redirection strategy. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery or execution.

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.club/wix?keyword=android+studio+installation+failed
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9edd50_5a1d75a1004049ec9ee3fe74e0fbff43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8ab6f62e8e2e41b5bbe52e324fcbac65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbe325_3ec504656aee4b33b83620b5eabdeb23.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a48928_64372d2dbd0845ffb8585e2a88584ba7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/974a4e_793938e4428b4636abaddab7bc63bc0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/136d07_8f8812ab836d4effb481aeaeb8e66abd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98d639_5ce1cdbd0be54ae8aa822119165737a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e2de_c194c3c685a145168ac51d9974e97129.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_7b95b233e47448fe82a551e9508cf93a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8606/1463/files/angina_treatment_guidelines_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7219/8558/files/82911750722.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b0c8dc_acf4828f2463483aa636a0d51e38f982.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b25b80b365d4e4b9469ac05a284220d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/68ec51_f367dc2c28634b26a86b7f2419a0bf95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55f640_b7777318772e4955893de7e4e23b1ff0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a59130_260131d9113f4d71b66247935865af0d.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_off00006ba8.bin
60279a7861fe38ad57b560bb85d37ec3e9c401818c2bf9954400cdebe9a5691e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA8 4892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c58.bin
c7a7266862313069ea2709763b5346311c5f28a5998e4ac331c5b1eb259f2070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C58 10740 bytes