Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f48cc3009693559a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 08:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6bd86e94d6a43cbf4491ee5ebc5b0c4b SHA-1: 9b687698ca228e0cb8471f3197ec9dae7082b428 SHA-256: f48cc3009693559a5c200f1e26d9d786a5bf1889e164a3487d0160153a215739
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=half+life+cheats+code', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain the same lure text. The presence of a link farm heuristic further suggests this document is designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=half+life+cheats+code
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_3d456096347941c794985b89514bd9f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/850f07_45fee91ec2264642a85146aac0561b39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_7f807ad3fa5246dca96420e53ddfbe3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a298ce_608c29336f8c4d8cb73603161113db74.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c345b0_0bb675e3519740dcbfe013fca1b151a6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/24485910102.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f84671_55f3a3a8c6564c2fa89a7dc3f80a4c82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_d6196bcc01a9413982b434e7b063717a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0bcf16_f2360fba43d341b983d468219ae871c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53aab9d6d5c14b72a94ac2b9ac3f740e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb13a2_a01a9d92b33648688dd0075958656132.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_off00004f97.bin
4a029a1517b62b5867758d111b577a2e5c116a1123c296a5357af720059c255a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F97 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006071.bin
0819d95b8e5563ecde17e6f6aa1d5c764de552d0f73689593af9a61bae75e279
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6071 12312 bytes