Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07176e407d2891b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-07-23 10:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: b6d553217bd94c463a4700968121265f SHA-1: a0ec95122d5680a84e10795e2c7d5ac8b85e0cfc SHA-256: 07176e407d2891b1eed9f5a7f49a8d1dd4d76ecc2c08bbb0a59ddabac4e7495d
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that appears to be part of an SEO link farm for distributing malicious PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the malformed stream length suggests an attempt to hide malicious content. The primary lure appears to be a fake download, leading to the ttraff.ru redirector.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.ru/wb?keyword=essentials%20of%20practical%20microbiology%20apurba%20sastry%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mimulux.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872021/8e1a96fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kindredliveband.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969241/nageduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harborcabinets.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636941/zakodiloguwoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountaingorillacoffeetours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407918/32e2f3a9853e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bereanwest.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383604/ravem.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/1/0430/0609/9605/files/64519558602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7614/files/fusoxujulixubatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2449/9367/files/jejiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6123/1262/files/65082722119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/97233461172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/40896164695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1999/2222/files/96099141236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/56012432618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9471/2228/files/5386529881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4930/4742/files/muwelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57727452667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8954/3836/files/nofojevisovogatawedi.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_off00005d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D3B 5556 bytes
SHA-256: bc357fd583a26f66bf18cd3f13dd34fffdbe2f7691478747f29ee4f74d846cc0
font_01_sfnt_off00007004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7004 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 756158969ac1f1fd7e595c27b6be3a9673d5a414a95a1f255a8fccc9d4936695