Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee91d8bb7d503e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-07-11 17:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 435fe7a2b81bff0ce5a1827b851d48f5 SHA-1: 777d86902479ea971d3743531e91d26674788134 SHA-256: ee91d8bb7d503e12663065909eb7994c882c80ff6cb585812b37c1b877dcfe76
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=how%20to%20speak%20english%20fluently%20book%20pdf, which is the primary indicator of malicious intent. This URL likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a broad distribution effort.

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=how%20to%20speak%20english%20fluently%20book%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.naturalartgardencenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453084/bekamaz-xujediviv-jimuvebodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.skirrowdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775154/fazefudusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luxurytophomes.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164383/sotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zefasizubora831696882.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/32844440791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefuwen.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/28313355457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vexekube.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pijetuxaregijuvoludojevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxedanu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/31500002097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozanetawivi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zajibodisinidarejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vebujeko.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/36656982099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://figosita.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/88242960018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemajuku.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xunefuzitagugeponeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38935964995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/78294040282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sakemiribukewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/2821486941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/60801944673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8506/1541/files/25510445294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5578033559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9202/6271/files/61795337942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9141/files/15058454691.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_off000077f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77F9 5448 bytes
SHA-256: ac16d869e9ef85c8afb6daea646ebcc44289c0ab3225e17edc40e10d48a0c6b3
font_01_sfnt_off00008a8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A8D 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 8fae944870eb471806eb9bf29be6e7fe8b09582ac45cf8d98744e60a47214c33