Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a55ec42b1a778467…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-07-08 23:29:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: f4315756da49575d6f76243a5a6ee52c SHA-1: 2ab859bb7d5fffe4d6431866b47cab67ad1e7dda SHA-256: a55ec42b1a7784673b494e81751dea7882f62336d6bdb6a7e42477100e1eb096
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=classical%20piano%20sheet%20music%20for%20intermediate%20pdf', is a known malicious redirector. The document body also contains a visual download button lure, reinforcing the malicious intent of directing users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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/wb?keyword=classical%20piano%20sheet%20music%20for%20intermediate%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.scribbledscratch.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856071/3861211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honesthomeinspector.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437233/xodifajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.galacticexpo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453332/sagesotivedenes_xexasipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hscisteacher.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739895/felijilaborela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindalgraham.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455283/7d86161771d526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tinagutierrezartsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775383/remax-taxopugazaledu-fuluxibejurifuj-lavosiraleset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spotlightcoachingdc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740090/newazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashboogey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776266/95775e5a11984ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.100womensalinasmonterey.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740181/bf9c0dad9fc23b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://lidobiwugam.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/debatomubumisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safowazebafo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/54864409117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zejuguguma.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/galeponanegupoxelusaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadubol.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dunotutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tegedow.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozoribudos.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zowokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leridopezeso.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nasakekabikuwamitajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/garul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doworefobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72890356131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mejamuzeditika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35022180152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jenodilibaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46391305542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BB4 5300 bytes
SHA-256: c84e3a5588c705f1c81109ea736f1de212c5073c07034354b1a64174b66d89a0
font_01_sfnt_off00007d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D80 10436 bytes
SHA-256: dc27b34b3dd6473d7e84a1d938e3456e797df77c71f17912ef64c6bf2d636c97