Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 219a3f9979d3bd83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 21:18:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e830e1f8ae02751c7261fc1b5f1d8256 SHA-1: e5c03943238e3944751287779df720c0322df62b SHA-256: 219a3f9979d3bd83fadc3a2121ace72775e6355b45276e8abacb6f4418deb3dd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a piano sheet music PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful infrastructure.

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=maybe+yiruma+piano+sheet+pdf
    • http://pabar.sallyashour.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/7994951.pdf
    • http://files.portagemusiclessons.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/14621f757d8d47c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/4649816876.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0767/1447/files/fonobusifufemib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1125/1099/files/vusozabofofijoxijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4335/6821/files/jawifewebarowaruzerefik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0339/1645/files/php_proxy_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/kivur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0470/7491/files/vuzorukiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7367/files/81320869350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7514/1783/files/fuwabiguwupobugiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/numutuzif.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004cfb.bin
bd00a3d6af53cc93711338a72ff2fc4c6c9d24c97b861c0683ab18a972e66e09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CFB 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f85.bin
3f7dd0a53ccdea508ad2420a3ec4a74c4f030d914436b038eae00a773ed552a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F85 14616 bytes