Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c46b0c26c3113aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-07-20 06:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 246afbc4f07bb09642383e0a98a92efe SHA-1: 828f27d2af281e62929f442a64e459aad27fe627 SHA-256: 2c46b0c26c3113aa9e77373b7c82283f555d4dbcb298d432c6e5e57c6e5c1e76
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=cbc%20assessment%20rubrics%20pdf'. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'cbc assessment rubrics pdf'. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports the 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 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.
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.cc/wb?keyword=cbc%20assessment%20rubrics%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.weiconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163684/witulazugakadulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saffronsunhealingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969811/2912223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coxevolab.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380733/b435077a189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iamnabia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695332/7657862.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/1/0435/2871/6440/files/18232718288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5933/9679/files/pevikujufogosoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7447/7464/files/turuwifuganalagerolojuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fulefevizurosojasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakuxutilame.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/83252589186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarekuxiwaz591622790.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/kutivaxateduridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudukaleditu308957543.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/7552647731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwebaf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/getejutulupoluniwomexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3459/1907/files/33293429458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0056/9753/files/97916528363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7404/4579/files/vevixemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72593533024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3872/8611/files/38863249859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0775/3888/files/wejozefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3721/2319/files/68062662127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5219/6249/files/lokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/57474735226.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_off00006c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C0A 5204 bytes
SHA-256: f10556f5859454a4b3480754407a0ba5ceb2ec8bf9278bf02bc81ff5ce9efe28
font_01_sfnt_off00007d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D98 14536 bytes
SHA-256: 0820add442df8d78ef720b1d9b7b82382e0dc547f8792733ad6ec20138ff10ef