Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd0c68fb866465e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:24:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8612a95212a9d8d1ea32bbdba4b31ef0 SHA-1: 2dc8205491b583a91830bd0648fc52e422e62858 SHA-256: fd0c68fb866465e2a5db900ec10758a544aa28d3aea1ec4995f3382cb2d8c6fd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=time+to+answer+complaint+florida'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a potentially harmful site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, suggesting a broader campaign to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=time+to+answer+complaint+florida
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a1fb72_c8dc2bad1218453ebfb5707814770e2e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_37d40923b4f5484ea361b3e7a735ad65.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/374ce0_d06f250f844e4b4cb21ec9f395de9a2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_98a915d7476b41d3b6d9c0d26dea2d06.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/garalufijem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7935/1968/files/bruker_nanoscope_analysis_software.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3505/5512/files/84611193592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0575/0946/files/apple_contact_us_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2597/9813/files/dofivoze.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e0839b1a2534d9abba6fd66bce1cfb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84c271c54998472f8e064733a317bc94.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_off000060f7.bin
14662cf1f7297227f55e43e63fe754f57df22be67d2701d2bf26ff022c0d45f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60F7 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000731d.bin
a20d9d3651df0f3a118d6bd3a56deb2d58d2aa7f09196740ba3bbbeaaa07a789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731D 9432 bytes