Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bfbe3e49d03c09f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

30.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:39:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04aa2f9e4df17194e6d78de09987c16b SHA-1: b4b2f967b081c97bfb018490ef35d8ac80545083 SHA-256: 0bfbe3e49d03c09f7047619eae5f1991d41ba6909ef5e7c294f05ccd0343a461
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'free piano sheet music' and a URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The presence of many external links, including a link farm, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and embedded links indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

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/pify?keyword=free+piano+sheet+music+hallelujah+chorus
    • http://files.qaradaki.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/266f0a8.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8357/files/sample_character_reference_letter_for_court_child_custody.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0144/6554/files/10172356798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2900/3416/files/17034890171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/61987514064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9420/3806/files/objetivos_de_las_bases_de_datos_distribuidas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/vemixanomunepas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9694/8382/files/26562436560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/59526866216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/vevagawisegipadek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4908/6102/files/citroen_ds4_manual.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_off00003da5.bin
6b5afd68a6551c9baf54d3525aa6340af1fce650024d8a1f4728cb8a4b52aa82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3DA5 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004f27.bin
63fb209cca38c699d94165ee7dc56cc60b485cd7084609add52574e266ba4424
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F27 8980 bytes