Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da66e6ad458b06c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-07-08 21:19:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 89960cc06d640da524c4dbd95983bf24 SHA-1: 46b74a15db7c5d4e5c2fe92ac743f009cad6a772 SHA-256: da66e6ad458b06c73c1736ef36dddb5e244087de228ab837581422a9f1893510
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=abb%20magmaster%20service%20manual`. The document body, while containing garbled text, includes the same service manual title and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking through to potentially malicious content. The extensive link farm indicates a possible SEO poisoning or mass phishing campaign.

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.com/wb?keyword=abb%20magmaster%20service%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.vcgallery.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856381/rokererukirejakifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1lifetravel.voyagerwebsites.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163932/04154077c8b9382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingsporthorses.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/1742861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cafedatalkalamode.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483550/3bbbf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beatricedouglas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813965/xidunojodonumilenapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.becomingsarh.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739567/3400932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scautoservices.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380138/pivizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thekobigroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409709/9185236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davidhamishwill.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302892/lilaxizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariecharpentier.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/batipaxadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://dezisekebu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/migoxebogigowikilewofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuwaloked.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilukunujor.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nimaganilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tanedikefiresemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99913566500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kulabegidubonigupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejumaxerufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pejuzesuloroxutebed.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_off00008194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8194 5080 bytes
SHA-256: e4e1a0b27c7ea852f80a68a0f7f094931617a2dc8114c899e7e31dba524498cd
font_01_sfnt_off000092c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92C2 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 29c403d1cddc9120ae742c242f13e56b563caa5167fbe5c5832a824a038c3053