Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77f8314fd9d2bc58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-09-28 08:18:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 017f444d4f06932ee8df904d4ced0b15 SHA-1: 56c1e0a478cd44ac8b4f0f6c6e8f795ac3a44ed1 SHA-256: 77f8314fd9d2bc58b3bff3007e85ffe38aac4f7a44b3187a51be535cb5829dfc
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=ceramic%20molds%20for%20sale%20canada, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains some of the same URLs.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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=ceramic%20molds%20for%20sale%20canada
    • http://lodepeju.michalgevaart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739090/781ffc.pdf
    • http://fafutes.nefrologiedagen.nl/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070566/6538883.pdf
    • http://xurekaj.mixfruitonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775388/bewutudegu.pdf
    • http://files.greenorganicfd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438453/fubegaba.pdf
    • http://files.blackburnbaptistchurch.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453136/zowaliveza-rapupi.pdf
    • http://files.greatlakestreeservice.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738666/zulanedepatorupame.pdf
    • http://files.guitarbuilderonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874530/48d6689a3d2.pdf
    • http://files.midnightriderbrts.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453494/fononetif-gokuf-wizoleja.pdf
    • http://files.crfgoldens.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/6873970.pdf
    • http://files.mazzantpainting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696113/775fa4d06.pdf
    • http://kumaxuweg.liveinlovecs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776031/3617953.pdf
    • http://files.rkarimitherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453484/a839d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://d4b3bfe5-909d-4682-97db-a8bb530ed9cc.filesusr.com/ugd/bbdb65_1389bcb727064be18499d5c340a510d2.pdf?index=true
    • https://ae763d3d-9976-4d68-aa34-9936b2ccc6d4.filesusr.com/ugd/a43ec6_34cd3525276f4fc98b2fe6c4437836e0.pdf?index=true
    • https://16a7edae-71b8-47b4-be73-9c8a9bc84c0d.filesusr.com/ugd/735189_a3e604cfab2444f0b1774f624441f651.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006abc.bin
3f01d5ff2d56d6882b38a493811d8a9752e396a3f88eaf739bc3c4b7380e0aa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABC 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007be1.bin
d8ba73c7ef7a211edcd582c7686302199f07268c8e94c8146049372ba5ccef5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE1 10356 bytes