Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecb7084977df727a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-07-23 03:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 60204f8f7de903fc40972676a9f4a541 SHA-1: 6b888e1a15eba93b993689e2163f595b954dc11d SHA-256: ecb7084977df727aefc6ccce3389e06443e400debbd9b36db08309d96c2572bb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'banking related terms pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of multiple PDF links and a malicious redirector link strongly suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

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.com/wb?keyword=full%20form%20of%20banking%20related%20terms%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tequilatoo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873839/wuguvovete-wezogote-buzaxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mollymurraybirthdoula.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/8027104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charitytrainingservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740619/wukowalimirim.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/1/0434/5564/3813/files/beduxujuvimokexirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/tebenubirumomimejasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/51093519451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/fogigaterafebepagono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/41487282440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xivatuzivo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sejerowivimuxulanakepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifenopi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bakegebibakajire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wudosuwan.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vomupotadexakevekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutirupejiba.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nenixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7616/files/nilaxefawupepejepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2131/8818/files/lagorexebifarapewutusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7365/0334/files/19978582898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1701/1353/files/69433921109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/gemitexizolozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/10096876781.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_off00007d43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D43 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1051a50749493e4ba29508af203a6e7a4bcc105786a69f16728db07d6332e3
font_01_sfnt_off00008f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F84 10116 bytes
SHA-256: d03d4832b05cf74bdcd9ff28e9c048932bc88af6671533495415d6c529df8d19