Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 737d521ce5a8ca30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-10-28 16:39:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7aaf2afc57a62c936631baeeb7eec64d SHA-1: 9a1950ba541088c1bff60f0321d32b5c136eba92 SHA-256: 737d521ce5a8ca30cca3b27333cba635239da1748fac3c8b87587d3371718b48
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify and Weebly domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or create a link farm. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.cc/123?keyword=who+created+ravenstein%2527s+laws+of+migration, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this malicious redirector URL and other benign-looking PDF links, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.

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/123?keyword=who+created+ravenstein%2527s+laws+of+migration In PDF document text
    • https://zavomafig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356936/xagofiboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373985/normal_5f8cf6007ace1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369660/normal_5f88b0801b273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367281/normal_5f91d71647842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369174/normal_5f89a2e50670f.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/1/0496/6285/3283/files/todibuzuliwonavizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1394/5513/files/youtube_video_downloader_manager_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8250/9213/files/54954435172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/4046/2789/files/grade_9_english_exam_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5305/6149/files/86515524453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/5472/9882/files/cat_fursuit_ref_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/4660/8282/files/properties_of_water_lab_ap_biology_lab_1_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8688/1985/files/king_crab_restaurant_depot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/0593/3254/files/98722209642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8457/3600/files/dubepobevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5696/2467/files/android_beam_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/6806/2379/files/49080486887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3348/4702/files/99097402869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/2850/3464/files/download_game_radiation_island_mod_apk_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8190/1253/files/battlefield_firestorm_download_for_android.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_off0000624d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x624D 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 7088a5bc2fc416015eecf6a424e76a4eac3e736acfb68b15692e1b37a4bb9c5a
font_01_sfnt_off00007574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7574 10480 bytes
SHA-256: feabc07756ac41a1927e71366b862b1710c01e0546b81606f96a4f8d1d724c46