Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4764149adbbb1ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 78a826db07abf5c736ad60ab6baabad4 SHA-1: fc2967a566ee0e7ee5ba278e7090fcb60e619a6c SHA-256: f4764149adbbb1ce42187165a55c5931a70563a4aaaa765a892dbb1b7c39a7bd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-Override T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=clinical+practice+guidelines+sudden+hearing+loss'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links within seemingly legitimate content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to a malicious site via these links.

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.ru/wix?keyword=clinical+practice+guidelines+sudden+hearing+loss
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_7851941f4111442f94d3e490716b2e66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_763d19419e0c4de8b2899d17445f2b99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cbb400a36ca84a078d6a91bcc7b9d5d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735189_e5bc31a4f3274f7b9fcb4733af2108d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e0eb0_d956e1ef3a6644929b5e37dc393c2a55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_1ccf6a4fadfb48c0aed06227ef53783d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07e02c_c39046fe8a06461f8fd053f4acc4c539.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07ef24_802b8b228b9a467a8e96db494a402962.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_c62f968267b543b8bdda77c8138da8d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f8cea_489ec9fdd971428683ca13850db45853.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_cccb10332dae491ba72977809dd25718.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_05e4132b5c6f4146a2f2761f79d39423.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_c19a243f747a4ac2a1569cf887e99984.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_dc262d6bef694fd997c7a75202bd6f32.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef542ec166994c67846a15a9a62696dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_3855220fd0ae4902bb903c9267ec912d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ba1d084c5234a77990e9413f8821f85.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_off000071d6.bin
7109eb4005f5074964231c0a69fa74eafd0ed8fb6291fe646a86bfeffd3a4f76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D6 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008394.bin
c650884ee2610c2cf0a6d28169cf9ad9a114c67a85b7aa65e2343493bda76536
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8394 10084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a606.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA606 4324 bytes