Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f25eb9b995922e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-07-22 20:57:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: a3a19f3047a5371c30b9f533352f984b SHA-1: ca1a730a0e7abed969dcb379750885da5ea3fe58 SHA-256: 7f25eb9b995922e9c817cc320f8ce32693666fe3db9f8b0f15989b6e07c30f38
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to attract downloads. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=information%20technology%20for%20management%20muthukumaran%20pdf%20download', is flagged as malicious and likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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=information%20technology%20for%20management%20muthukumaran%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.bertingelaere.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606619/4234185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ocsa-cc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856288/f0460f7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kholabakso.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775556/7497996.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/1/0430/1576/6177/files/nober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/38654455851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/nazezirivuloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3899/7669/files/63824210508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatavavosu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/suwugolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvolezo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fivivobijezojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podanowusotu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/64672112313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desesab.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/83508149793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/53754772239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8494/8380/files/35678894788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1275/1523/files/47690006198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2519/files/13243285805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3735/0305/files/58993199358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5461/9041/files/soxupofibimelesupogi.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000058e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58E2 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3b7fc33ff8878de6efdbae00c107ff6bf6ed185f73b26999f2e13aa416e1fb
font_01_sfnt_off00006b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B5D 9896 bytes
SHA-256: 51c8bbb9eca454fa60dda6b3421e68b53692645ef8b8df87223536aff1282a32

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