Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec06f5eb6e74d72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-07-13 20:13:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 85be9d9db577b24301645e7d126387b5 SHA-1: 0b4e6af02eb8d480daa763e7d1fbd38b577941c5 SHA-256: 0ec06f5eb6e74d724eed11c7b4d8260720f034ddc69ec36708165d39324a22fc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is classified as malicious due to its extensive use of redirector links, designed to funnel users to a network of SEO-optimized PDF hosting sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the heuristics indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for malicious purposes. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mathematical+physics+pdf+for+msc, which likely serves as the entry point for the attack chain.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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/pify?keyword=mathematical+physics+pdf+for+msc In PDF document text
    • http://files.emeralddriveproductions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681757/pajogofikiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deborahkellerrihn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379236/zufalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tomhumeartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453241/mujunatizovixikuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.radicalphilosophyassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856356/xarerumuguk-xereva-wilekoginusugug-fufewudatusives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fasndworkshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406234/8bbf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carriekellyk9.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/423a0f3acc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spencerandsarahphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739802/nixobibeledagopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sundownlodgeequestrian.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776403/8482563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.originsofearth.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813764/febbf77a41af22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://duwopizemole.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/71462186445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitorolopi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kititeponukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotilebuf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xotizafizawujigude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolojitafet.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/97329350031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3678/7356/files/ruworezizitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6423/files/43696178765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3850/7169/files/lidananubonasujobesalefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6728/5408/files/31145118877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9430/files/vujujatitedaletupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/64989875230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51025654711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9064/1045/files/pajivorejawediwezapu.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_off00006a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A32 5184 bytes
SHA-256: e3cf5e2db4582a058ed0643f2fd814a26e18c4a345d330745a049fa8833af4db
font_01_sfnt_off00007be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE3 9800 bytes
SHA-256: b8e87643c802c6456e7ed03682f0c46721f9c6209be51e3a4cf0bc90bfe1c62a