Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a390821665d5b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-07-31 06:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 328139d33479b440586e43e6eed76b35 SHA-1: d4c109bf7d3a510744396109480f56897674ae7e SHA-256: 22a390821665d5b07fb3962436925bee64b17d8d7f1cc6b4ab038c675daa953a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with a lure for 'hallelujah chords guitar pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact payload or further actions.

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=hallelujah+chords+guitar+pdf
    • http://files.northernsmokers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/limodov.pdf
    • http://files.mosaiqc.eu/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637108/towujifizeva.pdf
    • http://files.agmoving.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438207/pagilusojat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8113/8343/files/53746961861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9936/3222/files/31118733828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5963/2545/files/58075572183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2218/7685/files/46603500613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9340/1501/files/logigadomararu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/xenikogujoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6842/3334/files/pawefaguvawatogibitef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/79859058383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8967/3888/files/zepajineni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6217/3604/files/8379379052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5989/4682/files/xelewefuguwowowupagab.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071ef.bin
a89c7da30c2736aaf73355b425527da589c468397d8c553ec298d748ff99be8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71EF 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083d1.bin
0d7535cb90ef729c9eeb86bdd923562378c82d5ae350630c40db2aed8220dffb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83D1 10240 bytes