Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4ae995da50e759…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-07-20 10:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 7260f9cab1200b137c3f3b4f09c7ae40 SHA-1: e18d990f4fcc03c29921119db030dfc2d7caa481 SHA-256: ee4ae995da50e7593e3de1149a31cc3e3c6945c8fce5450d00c973d7fa311780
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=programming%20languages%20robert%20w%20sebesta%20pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to programming books, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=programming%20languages%20robert%20w%20sebesta%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.candbcreative.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873781/fopexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clearhorizon.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775199/4803881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.staugustinereed.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775666/b63868.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/1/0430/2284/4067/files/kuwapoxamuxizafadexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/gisuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/nasilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2556/2785/files/32660158336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/6981/files/dofaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zejamiwi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/wukajepazapuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwapatevav.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/37432837638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunilugozu602496905.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1600536290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mixowunajux.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/15013015714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesuxegu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/45158457608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31321710084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3147/7922/files/javoxanivijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98572357872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7502/7619/files/39750105051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6880/1702/files/90208072115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7404/4579/files/fasexixosofimenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9960/9505/files/vadepadovirase.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_off00007748.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7748 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 0327e68f5ff29c7b5f00a26a1833068ddb100475cec6a48b5fd35fc1c99636a8
font_01_sfnt_off000089d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89D1 10336 bytes
SHA-256: ffaaa560021f76901d8027f02877b0fc693e5ef716f5d65e4a8101ec9a691fe2