Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a89527530945bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ae236aefc23c177678b72a328ec9e21 SHA-1: 05ffd7672176b94a2375494f331e43a6cfc8ab42 SHA-256: 04a89527530945bf8b29849bff92ebe5910d45e02fa57d595f5da0f572a3b7ad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links and text that direct users to a malicious redirector URL, disguised as a piano sheet music download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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/pify?keyword=kiseki+roselia+piano+sheet
    • http://files.iansturgess.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/7044997.pdf
    • http://files.amptheatreagency.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071063/30a928e20257.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0784/8096/files/autocad_full_course.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8273/5006/files/rurudoboxoneguvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1283/9834/files/21167469382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6423/9014/files/40569216647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8667/4088/files/altivar_21_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0265/7957/files/combat_magicka_regen_skyrim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8480/files/aptis_listening_test.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005de2.bin
8ca0e5c23c725cfd763130d053d0f19efdef91724bb14c2bed017e44353fa61c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE2 23976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a8ff.bin
b3b4f967a59096f3c5d37606214d671046709da28f69797a1b6b7b011d6173d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8FF 4940 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b9bb.bin
a3a8017a0b7d43acd490544eece31756ed1065f455b1104914ff81bb0e4f8dad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9BB 11808 bytes