Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f45117a628358431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-09-04 05:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8976b69059700c15bb18bfb46885b157 SHA-1: 48d9dcdce6643aaf9e4ccf4f3870a292aca7c603 SHA-256: f45117a628358431a8ac5a8c6096ddd3fe340e30ab9b26bb61e04ab45f695cc7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.ru'. Another heuristic indicates a link farm hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=handwritten+thank+you+note+after+interview+template', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=handwritten+thank+you+note+after+interview+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a11b0_05c36452c879414298607f8098b463aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/04e6f9_0346e1abf03b412e9717b9059c005df6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3a38e0_164abd8d9b764a89b4ffd0aefbabec4c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0727/8238/files/whatever_arises_love_that_course.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/72729885845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0892/5600/files/41015942416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/2489/9237/files/kitco_24_hour_silver_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8181/7494/files/96083612620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7541/9798/files/99094751972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1682/2692/files/9665893890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8474/9729/files/74345715787.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_562ea8b830294f9cb9eb945eb99bb91e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defdb4_30aef6d985ff4889a0d2eeede2bd3c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/41a0b6_92e03343bf5c44c4aceb9c7445742395.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69b86f_9815a8464fac4e0885266ff582022720.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_3eccae5774a64fdbbd7c1f38afbc6649.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_off000089cd.bin
93a22e648da9b82a9d0982eaeaf456393851b71e4757fd09a7a2d80d145e6fa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89CD 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009c0f.bin
1f0eea15dc78714f56e9cf2186801b5d25f9802efdbde74254857a846236a125
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C0F 10744 bytes