Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ec90a129ecadd2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-07-15 20:55:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 57d2b7d328f2e2ef32b38a17672c6880 SHA-1: 780b1ef50e44cf02ca59f72c99e4cf813e989247 SHA-256: 5ec90a129ecadd2ec03b271480a950f1a4193c34d7663d76a6c56acabbc699e1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on WordPress.com with numeric slugs, suggesting a link farm. A critical heuristic identified links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru', which is used to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/wb?keyword=how%20to%20improve%20concentration%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.delightfullyfit.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452778/9588263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caid.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437636/sefusobeduweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andicho.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438019/1955e70afeb689b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://navurigafevu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zibetanunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemujaju.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/93748376071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejanokavak.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/65654822225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murivavuj.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/getoxusameroxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fowexafo831514887.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jaladutivaxefefofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzuboxovova.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/banotowetipasefujimebajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://befevimupa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vuwimokexogumapasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solanimozo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/38758514927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimiwativis.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nezinoguzegepenimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foburabowo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/17361646034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/kufoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9765/2376/files/7176320818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54058680795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4742/9031/files/39823068966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6038/7227/files/rosiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20424522606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7046/3895/files/91515004783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0849/1673/files/nutolugixe.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_off0000771c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771C 5024 bytes
SHA-256: e25bb1a224d6c6655f43f8f4bee33ef1782d45f7fb1062685641100f8c044fec
font_01_sfnt_off00008829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8829 10088 bytes
SHA-256: dcff1ae597b6a853d489fef1c58c211d0214827927ddfbf3bc9ca13744105ce2