Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6f668886d75744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-07-14 22:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 54a367da82b6825b528341a63da73257 SHA-1: 30c1980b8ed10573ce332c8b411bae7e5b577030 SHA-256: cc6f668886d75744b68091cff7f15d35f3f99f484701049bbe1b13db182c0726
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to a URL that appears to be part of an SEO link farm. The embedded URL in the document body, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=subtraction%20formula%20in%20excel%20worksheet', is designed to trick users into clicking by mimicking a search result. The PDF also contains a large number of links to other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation to improve the ranking of malicious content.

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=subtraction%20formula%20in%20excel%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.lovingalways.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776370/5204311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.purplespirithealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164260/porijitorodibugiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simplydivinesuds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407812/23f3d849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cvillepack77.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070572/9694475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cynthiawidawski.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070861/371a75a038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trigvintage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/giravodowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnbiesecker.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606073/6357906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zunowud332468685.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/33161405293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tijezaj.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/7905998470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazebibirolo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/89196307079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vunumegosuvuvorewufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/19696161235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/xirulivamenuduvofibajafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tefabojukiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7063/5678/files/96696202208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5108/files/jebaxidovipinawame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2870/0571/files/94173546242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7755/8681/files/83341117131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4185/7448/files/85792432140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wajafaliwufenosikem.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_off0000800f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x800F 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 2183aa1860387786e2340c7788917b3536d629c133dc35a70a775c2d93f3bbd8
font_01_sfnt_off0000928a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x928A 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 24fe8d4f3e9a6534b0017c67000a7dfecb820e1541f6f45ac4c3ae66786224d9