Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5edc4a3c24654bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-07-17 16:41:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 4ffb876d43b5f6f5d2d794c0890befd7 SHA-1: 36141276e620d557d6df8b73d3e6b2b28149e620 SHA-256: a5edc4a3c24654bb11bc3e00028397b3e78d610ebfae4e5cf3be3a6e6c025da0
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an error message, prompting the user to click it. This is a common social engineering tactic to lure users into installing malicious browser extensions or downloading further malware. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but the primary malicious link is to ttraff.com.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=error%20printing%20pdf%20from%20edge In PDF document text
    • http://files.guyingram.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681596/3295852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tintenbarhall.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739059/9214566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eastcoastmassage.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/wefuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cedarwoodhealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453431/259669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0605/7888/files/duvefilewilotipejeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6607/2994/files/41722034895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pujofupokutesigitugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4391/2856/files/ritipisofubipasugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3666/3208/files/1397179839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotodirod.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sepusinunenuketoberuvawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konuvemove.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dixameni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuporewa.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/gasarazezonalotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5702/files/9604558906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3260/8917/files/malajovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1322/6139/files/23386713573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/nuvulebidudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3906/4225/files/63354353548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8220/3801/files/wowegumumilalopuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/mativiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8740/files/lumurejukoberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2776/7206/files/migogujigitekigefonaguza.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_off00007ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AB4 4688 bytes
SHA-256: a8caf17672eba1a2535ce26c0ff75334869c47bbc24fb93c5e70fafc071eb26a
font_01_sfnt_off00008a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A8C 10432 bytes
SHA-256: ad45bc2991feca02986edee3edbda9e14a745b0f1846665f83f655db14b62e40