Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d452bfce538cdfe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c8d705c73ba0b0cd5ac6537d545fdec SHA-1: 303e2353a89c65435d4ff98b975992edcabaafed SHA-256: d452bfce538cdfe722b42a1b4897f649531d410d5ea2ce36d14ea41a81830190
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=leaky+gut+diet+plan+infographic+and+downloadable+pdf, is likely used to lure victims into downloading further malicious content or phishing for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of numerous links to static.usrfiles.com, while some are marked benign, suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.com/wix?keyword=leaky+gut+diet+plan+infographic+and+downloadable+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/44b221_f9656b91292e40cdbea1b981f62c55dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_9e8d9e7cab42490985e17046356fa2d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9698d9746ec44ffb9c18193521fbafa5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_afc2588e106c488d92aa9a447be59533.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_4b138fa4bac24336b73a809ffc7f1fd5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_6e99191880ce40a1a974b77556dbeec8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc2df725d53a4123ae0e48095199d0fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70c1f8_49a2de1977914adb8f9d110b98b8a2ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_8c76ed5da77e438ea749d84961606202.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83a6177815bb45f1bf535570ea7ac4f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48678c07c83842769f636ebcdd7e76a4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7223/3380/files/6016197854.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/jotelinitopawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3191/9765/files/unfair_dismissal_template_letter.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_off00009bbe.bin
b3a225a85eaccd43a250eaf259fcd43b5f86bc638cf2f988924aba0ce869a745
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BBE 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aeca.bin
8212f96373949341aa83ef4f36258dc34c2dde7fa25943d249fbfdaa94b06b47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAECA 11744 bytes