Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed7b474e2c5e45e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-09-01 23:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 78425b978196dee269602256ac5c0ec9 SHA-1: 7e58b2fd72f599f01d6b3feafd56f0e6b202bfa3 SHA-256: aed7b474e2c5e45e50546d8fb3bc97f458b0a2e483efc487379c78f28b51f22c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button, aiming to trick users into clicking it. The link leads to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=ethylenediamine+market+report', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm, with the primary host being 'static.usrfiles.com'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and the lure of a download button strongly suggest a phishing or social engineering attack.

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=ethylenediamine+market+report
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_192971c59dd340659c7133a181d20a25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_80e12ea16bc64a36a8a2ffeacb025f4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_2743e2bf7ff44dbcacadfb06289e7d9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_f2c0e2e4d41a46aa98354f9e5d590b93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a96ba4d53c5d49dcb42b83e3e8453bac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/39692971255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3459/7784/files/31650203645.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_51316dab20864db898b294868e5b8e92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/909b15_879b940d29474c6b9ea0c06b680fea11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_6262ac60c7e143e09088940fabb1e8a1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6329/files/864713704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9681/0396/files/xinitibebopadepimojijig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9972/3678/files/download_english_to_urdu_dictionary_in_format.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005da2.bin
05b1fbfa5f8b726f3179bbaa4d68d9414eedfa48c33b32d93a440a76814c4b30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DA2 4932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e30.bin
20800a4ff7e2a162a4e9f2046cfeea377904c9963ea91b03b2028bd532cbf95e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E30 10096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000090bc.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90BC 4324 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009ebc.bin
caf9811e1a6e42c9360652c76e82f59796d88d1d2f406f1e74155b4abd6f2eb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EBC 3724 bytes