Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb7a3317b8267868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 12:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 062a456d9d171d992ae8e5e07f4d59a4 SHA-1: e060567ff47ac1b3b3cd40d11a7dbbdb9fed097c SHA-256: fb7a3317b82678680612611aff696d0be7285da3d9cd7bf494e1837b5d30e1d5
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=piano+chords+chart+notes'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with 'https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b50c55_afb71a3275e2406aa0e651e729572463.pdf' being the first listed. The presence of a 'Download Button' heuristic further suggests a lure to encourage user interaction with these links. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the malicious URL.

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.cc/wix?keyword=piano+chords+chart+notes
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b50c55_afb71a3275e2406aa0e651e729572463.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dbf61614925c45b59beeea5a0c209236.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_f434f56c682041399495c7a0d06f54fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_db43475c013b4a038cbe994afa5ee37f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca90cdc4ee4248cb9a02fae74eff77a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2813e2_4a3d53dac7664c88b2b090180e9e58cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_9a20d0b5f3ae41498a2c89f58d851d2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_f3d49b990e9e4bf086f86755d258c64c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3279adcd308141108f647b98d0b30610.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_716677ced8d04d83a18e9fa8fea9c63f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_5352d5071bb0442abf91980c8bac0b4e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/24248109623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9765/7248/files/75969939910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2096/6298/files/rovenarojug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6693/0840/files/blackberry_10_os_games_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7198/7098/files/jandy_valve_actuator.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_off00006cc6.bin
94bfbcca32cc93c47eb3dc2637084c277c02f5c156c271d80e23f86cc9173134
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CC6 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007da8.bin
bdfce4a5e8e1e9fca78147d450a77356986e534c119a913e0a7e245bdfe8b636
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DA8 11644 bytes