Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ffcb1bb79f5a662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-07-08 18:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: 223dc35d88fbc0ba1b709ce538b7b0b7 SHA-1: 0d02b17d2b6d7b9ba3db35630e5b0dc5b23d73bf SHA-256: 0ffcb1bb79f5a6624847bd82885a6dc02056b51347cb84ab28a815a6a6be23cb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document functions as a link farm, employing SEO tactics to lure victims with keywords like 'Kegel exercises pdf download'. The embedded links, including a primary redirector at `https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=kegel%20exercises%20pdf%20download`, are designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a coordinated effort to distribute harmful files.

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/wb?keyword=kegel%20exercises%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.bishopgumbleton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/tokasinipegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newyorkstategrandcouncil.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437538/bapemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paramountrec.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775827/wanuvawofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marthaproject.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696280/ligeribabolapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apothecarepharmacies.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681343/d3bce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mi-sheffield.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/niludavifek_rerodotite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.willowfree.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740344/xiwodufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artoutofdakota.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695493/4805215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sanctuaries.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856443/jebegesogitesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefilamentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/fakesijerisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kspaceonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380868/b7e90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://moxiritaf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/27572179674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bovotebejug.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/57120126059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalokoxon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/26407267600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomigizob.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/34110034399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68513135127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dadimutixiwukigojubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wizivudid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1587610690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pejuzesuloroxutebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dobemajafapurotexujebo.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_off00005f2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F2B 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 68b69a1c05c60144f5297e14212d666c24b7cba0385492c3b1e1b822d7f50ef0
font_01_sfnt_off000070dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DD 9904 bytes
SHA-256: d4afad8c684b87f83c1902a8df8eacf91e9f76e40c121d7853689f3be172cff6