Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4f9bb453021f05b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 21:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e728785f282a93429a913ee31638c93 SHA-1: 89958a862c9fb9206f182a6e2b6552aca67d385c SHA-256: a4f9bb453021f05b42ae9614fe38dca78f7de96f38ebce30a23cfe3237a27a94
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a free printable envelope template. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=free+printable+envelope+template', is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.cc/wix?keyword=free+printable+envelope+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7398/8774/files/animal_kingdom_worksheets_for_grade_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4111/9653/files/ridufodowudesux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7576/3353/files/wekotebudowamukutegemas.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_32f6d5111ff6454e94f7c0b698f0f050.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_54e4f5cb873545e588c7b8596267738e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e23c022d67d34e72a2dcc95ceb99c577.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f139695ee2484889a870e9f9d6725a17.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_8f597d7d7a5f472d9d0a1d23094628c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_219f6bb84f8e4ddca14d29bce5ca7ae6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/510a18_7609f98482c244a3a14905a7e14f6a69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_f0784ab37f494614b3b3db1afa617026.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca933f4e887c48e6b0edae9a96fa7667.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a81b69b956e5473c91c32c5a7c31e113.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bebec2d79e4a49c6bd4768229736433d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5926b4_d4eea46a7b65434c9cac3689789c9ac5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fab0fb2f8284ee8a177317f2dddbf43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90423f_a976e9defddf4e29b84d26503ddd0123.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_off00006126.bin
77681d0087ee4052ac448c95c94fbc12a6b934884e7b9584c4265295a0a31f8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6126 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071e6.bin
5b893f346219c564351d28606ae58b6559d14f1a8d64575c05116b1fe46c3fc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E6 10172 bytes