Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9877186a679b0fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2c48e4732175d46e87bb978ef0858111 SHA-1: 5d31c77d136a3bd53c9898de2ca6b0c0f89e4fe6 SHA-256: f9877186a679b0fa3f65a8ef0ca6ca267ee6bcf80d915f8de60b7d0ccddfa67e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure via the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=difference+between+wafer+lug-style+butterfly+valve. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with the primary one pointing to static.usrfiles.com. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to encourage user interaction with these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific intent beyond the redirection.

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=difference+between+wafer+lug-style+butterfly+valve
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bdc6d_2f0c34577ec946ef8a7fe6c55c990452.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60818dd9cbe14df4bd4bec0b9b691139.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a107a1d0827641bd97289a95c729bf0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4e6dd5_1840ab593769417891aae3cfe2c23b93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4a13_5a61c52bed5241b6aa82ba1b21c68a08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ecadc_3ede0f3c16434f288f4ba20f8314f94f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e687bd6877354514be288505e5b4670b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6750a3ee64b34a2597d692cbba752b09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_84d409befc994eee8e556fb43d82bed7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8eb1866d71f94eedb18dda8893a49f48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_04271ab99aa9489e9522db0e352afb03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_0963f70ca87446929a9c7447a6c8c74c.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_off00006c0e.bin
7f414ed772415b42208a65e65fc07e9325e7b2b0d3237640a175127d16b2d2f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C0E 14224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097ad.bin
f37f599818c01a22b39828cb322e373413ce6194bb9ec61009be89aa2067ea52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97AD 5476 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa85.bin
5e96f30386ccc261146989ef5a43c88d36fab3f39abf2198c33eb88196215ee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA85 9932 bytes