Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deb3299d7f30ca05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:39:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6cf2b80e42b76c5de6c9bc5557f66335 SHA-1: 78cdbd31844d977cfe2d2df8b0f4070ec7505544 SHA-256: deb3299d7f30ca05b012abeb9400e13ecf807d1fc66c33a97629ff8d9bfd3e71
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding a large number of external links, many of which point to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs as found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to drive downloads or traffic to malicious sites. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=50+shades+of+grey+ebook+download+fre
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_48d132b8992940a8b6dfd096f1126b78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_440114f5513f4854b313b69758118795.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0ccbb5b64f645d2a63ec0126a010652.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7a07edf9d9f64c18bb50311f113be05c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_ad2bce176dff4e46b06171734d942c72.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0933/5715/files/33122250650.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/71353226564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7903/files/11602447069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/zimidipafulonamexeb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b5a9a028e0b644cd8d98e93a5652333a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d400c_ca598a89e34d432e9522be08b20c51a0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47878122177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4122/5880/files/all_algebra_1_formulas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9866/1279/files/42301479442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/marpol_annex_1_to_6_summary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3514/0007/files/the_leader_who_had_no_title.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_off00005cdb.bin
5855416035567f8766bcb970b8b5ac36f562b97f239c0b0a774dca38157d3c88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CDB 5736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007068.bin
dafabc4fbe34d59738cff95514785799b975278eca9bbca660828af8c7844cfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7068 7004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000082ee.bin
dce435081fc2f3c657ed89c2f86dc01ace8c884ab730b64177ca3a279e318ee6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82EE 10788 bytes