Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e77eb2f6fffae31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-10-02 13:31:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: a9b26acca4ff5a573288431a325e0363 SHA-1: e5dd3c1301e1b91a51a3227a6d0b362dd460d3da SHA-256: 0e77eb2f6fffae31a6200f02ed6422bef37e94f8bacd4dbcdbc111ef44d13196
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to 'cctraff.ru' which is flagged as a malicious redirector, likely serving as a lure for downloading unwanted software or malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Wondershare Filmora effects pack download' and numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, reinforcing the phishing and download lure aspect. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL is a high-confidence indicator of malicious intent.

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 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=wondershare+filmora+effects+pack+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.easygocentralillinois.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437932/xugebokuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fesakubin.huhaixiao.info/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740352/6309881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aghortteachers.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776720/rebobixixuvud-gadezi-jorepirorijepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037261.mozfiles.com/files/1037261/64529564659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039478.mozfiles.com/files/1039478/fizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037911.mozfiles.com/files/1037911/xejemozusaxilekedamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037003.mozfiles.com/files/1037003/ziwodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3abed15-1bef-475b-be5b-67bf16939356/fidevapabezufokijokoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9479c041-d364-4802-b011-3629805e1092/25303963657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3629dba-4662-4747-a7ff-3e39c6bf21e3/zezugupoluzotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ffd7812-78c4-47da-831a-a48fc9961dca/rinodopudefapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1a2dab3-4378-41a0-ada0-001198e057a6/nidenitanibonevazune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/3378/3203/files/99943225747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7358/3781/files/53334483041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9875/8567/files/60855967431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/0887/1581/files/nuvevamafixorokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/1829/9810/files/angiline_the_baker.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AC 5352 bytes
SHA-256: a25123c7abb1ac28079a4a02e87d378448e40694b2724015f6d3f38a82ec2ef5
font_01_sfnt_off000075c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C5 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 6342514d2b7320a1681b7f06dd085b085141808a74b4d55a423b11515dac684c
font_02_sfnt_off0000987e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x987E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f