Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 071df6bfca8580f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-07-09 07:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 04be28e6d356428514c523012b129c4a SHA-1: 871e51d4df388e2df630ebade2b8f07251e9d941 SHA-256: 071df6bfca8580f6737962502bd8e23f6c7c814819cca0e30cbc08b954536c77
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains. One URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=types%20of%20transmission%20media%20pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content via the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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=types%20of%20transmission%20media%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.totaltutoringservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695574/adb8d8d801fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.todayhousing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969243/vanamogukalazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fhcamd.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/5932877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.az-tennisacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873975/suriteve_sefexujirove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laptoppartstore.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712163/zumixine-fufanemuporeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drlesgarson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776123/1719573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.infinityhealingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739503/9d10dc763a5a77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scholasticlead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776408/3844128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://supufusifiv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gafemigedonosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winasetuto.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/pajevegubebarogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nijarabukexi809583250.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/3191580657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexejopatewu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/36604499805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekenogana.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/62472584966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolopuxiwad.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/lizinabulawixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dibevupajuwu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/remowalidilunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fadanamimurusekebunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nanejixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16946396068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/duwaxufezemurogagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13170590630.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_off00006fd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FD5 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 758a959dbde1c2d375cf72b6b626bb5cd1edf178b6b484c7ac771b9997e4d943
font_01_sfnt_off000080b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B8 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 833d0e2e76b1255967eba04a7c75c8f1544b6aae6d7db4ab3506dceb42b0a2c3