Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0362946becfaacaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:41:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3c8c5a1c521c247e36e9eaba8d48dd8 SHA-1: 300c2dbbcd5c471d6eb193ee9665c0e6eff87f28 SHA-256: 0362946becfaacaf07d63fd82389225f268e3a6026f1b4665bcbe89537f3fb7f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'sheet music' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates potential SEO manipulation for traffic generation.

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.me/wix?keyword=smooth+santana+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ee62c131f8448449de202204ebdcb1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f454b93d6fad41bc85e70e7b7c8c3dd3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_6ee45c3d0023409ebd91c23141790075.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8e85fd2285534310a5655e8580de0c0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c3cc08bbea914980af47646a1456721e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c90b5d5b093420bb5424da4e9ecb507.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_c4f776335a2b4a79b58fdfc5df373052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0597/5462/files/somajajawojatokiguj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9845/4682/files/fowatuzinilifitomu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8009/5646/files/55874816374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5067/2026/files/bedute.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b2801f4ef954e06afde1a49b0f6e3d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_a250d46b4e9e4c6183cb0e15306d40b4.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005100.bin
a23badef82708017da08164af8f741526a01a4dbeaaa0ee2e0e4eb5aa91186db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5100 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000631d.bin
db624216608ad8a7217927a5a207a7b7b434e4bfdf0fae4329849a18f6892b72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x631D 14548 bytes