Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc631962815065b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6c163cac18988a22d4f755f241971909 SHA-1: cfddb5e7e28afa3785aa91fb3d9a384a0c4479a2 SHA-256: dc631962815065b8f513ed35aac1ad30a27d5d95f8c0f7f674e029ae1dc9ff9a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to the same domain (static.usrfiles.com), suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=basic+skills+in+interpreting+laborat', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating it's the intended destination. The presence of numerous external links and a malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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=basic+skills+in+interpreting+laborat
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_7c89a4da4bcd401ab33ea930d168a84c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fc7fd14f55584cf981a041432a1bc95e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5cdb85e260694944968d6c7e18b42741.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_e902c857bdba4264847fd1c12af32903.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2144100e9be34a09ba9a82ea531e3fca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_23d4e0d7390145788bea8d2e38bd1cc9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_770bf3c3d14943f8bd9de74929a16c86.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5be868_554765883bbf400ca309674df398b5ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f63f29_2aa2b9be46714d419867b38f4a3d64e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_b4d33de397ff48668678e5dae26dd716.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f66acebd9c5a44d2b41c188da780c883.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d162e3_e799532033594cd8a5284caf5748c8ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_805983a1b05449a6b92b8c5ef2455aae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ab475b41a142b8b91bf48faf579473.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4725f1_af9069224935413abccb3cfaf68c3062.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0120433f8ed46b1b7e740f4ad7a52f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad9eae7bcf3b4f189219a120b63a11f9.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_off0000a1f3.bin
594037f3609fc1f17046f0c9566978e15f840c6e712b4edcd47f40bdefa9f224
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1F3 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b42b.bin
3704a381020510b9da6886292352489b0403af648c50be4151a393dee7cf0031
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB42B 10944 bytes