Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0eb76de11a9bc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-07-21 07:53:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 58c6a6dc38f2693404dc03e4c4b41388 SHA-1: a1592c45cc2fbd9368763f0e56886a303d783418 SHA-256: 6f0eb76de11a9bc26288e6f9403fa208ab27f983c933131b4b77dd4275dfbb26
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=pokemon%20trading%20card%20game%20rules%20pdf, is flagged as malicious and used in an SEO lure to trick users into downloading a fake "Pokemon trading card game rules pdf". The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.cc/wb?keyword=pokemon%20trading%20card%20game%20rules%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.swhtambulance.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164027/1815527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lumenctr.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871796/vatebobunaxu-sikuzoxupe-xebenujin-neruzomusame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creativesheetmetalworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814980/58ab018c0a3dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.opossumbottom.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739490/189c5420062.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/1/0433/8771/5742/files/tenagaxoziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7875/files/73028940358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4452/7511/files/38406499995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nariwep.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kigoveduxetetigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevadev.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dopunatosofuzokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipirikufuda.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/75175919612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jekiwex.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/58581885430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48177964882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/17675312916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vazakiliduvapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8747/0494/files/38326023916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4696/9237/files/tebumitukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9768/files/86890392804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8996/1884/files/35941514430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1019/5605/files/66320001978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2042/7157/files/sigikejimarabi.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_off0000762e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762E 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 321e7866668ccd5057ced6d7062673503b9f73bc0d84374710ad6a340e54d4e0
font_01_sfnt_off00008887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8887 9872 bytes
SHA-256: 479e8b89482281b481ef0bae4d1e859a75b3a5442eae74509fab9001346c0536