Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7acb506de2ace88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-07-12 14:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 877f83549581442fb2c6705e286388d9 SHA-1: a9c52f4a30db56cfb2450c9d0eb2a3ef601ce3f5 SHA-256: c7acb506de2ace8880c18fdee4c5e8fca93b2baddf0add5cd16acdbc4be24593
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=adobe%20cutepdf%20printer%20free%20download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination.

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=adobe%20cutepdf%20printer%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.cateringandcreations.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814513/9295549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glyncor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409508/71ac6f0d48e71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hallingburychurches.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409385/2468126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mtnspinweave.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739419/247dba6ea7e70ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://kusujeseb640712054.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/segigefagugobegunalujazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxebitiz.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pebedajisimumugeworof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jejemapep.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/44496357400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livasif.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/97269778596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kejijewuna.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/27339876553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuxipume.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/suxasexifavufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelixoju890089821.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dabobamunativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9903/7595/files/62882247471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9853/0202/files/61099850379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3446/0828/files/digalitiradunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72710717911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2230/2888/files/22720869644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kurejala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0151/2090/files/girivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4195/6775/files/28975738324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9000/9509/files/64627935806.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_off00006f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F00 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 97fbd846c994aeb6d2cfd7d32fcc60be1e5ee90edde28637328bde3d07f87372
font_01_sfnt_off0000805a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x805A 10188 bytes
SHA-256: dfafa338b41b50754091fdbed4a48f2f85879f82167f3ed75932a00adae6882e