Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01bfc7bd51ec6310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-09-02 03:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d279a545c7323def4ea53f97c676c093 SHA-1: da69e2c1da95a4eb250c27a300eacba59b28af58 SHA-256: 01bfc7bd51ec6310ffcdfc7921db0c5cdfea20bc4a72df815a20e1378612b789
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to host other PDFs. One prominent link directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a guitar sheet music download. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is suspicious due to the mass of external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=yellow+ledbetter+guitar+sheet+music
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b207ad7ef46945b7889860c5efc70661.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19ce5d_0910d7fa1d2840ecbd83a627e60facb5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_47e928b6e04a481d87c49a1b9e8a565f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dcf4b_15bef1edef4746daa5f6b517658b9531.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_cd798f2234ec4ddfb3e2dc307ab53314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9932/3558/files/36517097123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1049/0519/files/pazukibazumikukufaworine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2230/0822/files/attestation_de_travail_algerie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8494/7357/files/55706529784.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4414/files/89740297361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1826/3464/files/jevewefizewukofebewan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3655/7987/files/levumowiduxuvofurevar.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006647.bin
05f32136c58452d12773dbba76b60bc01c4beb6fd63e8d32f041eb4a30cc9c0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6647 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007904.bin
8f19c3383c500be4f697f98a67aa30c3fa8a540be87f7d95adc16a94a5084711
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7904 15360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8e1.bin
541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8E1 16204 bytes