Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28a2e1280944fd87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:20:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebd3ccb9a33f593afa385c414de36713 SHA-1: 4db568ec1c76cedb6b6ffbbadcd9bfaa43cc689f SHA-256: 28a2e1280944fd87b0adcb066c5af72e2d178b8ea68440fe963a0d5780c56fc3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, a technique often used in SEO poisoning or link farm attacks. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'blank guitar tab sheets to print' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=blank+guitar+tab+sheets+to+print
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4216/7194/files/63962457990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7099/7151/files/84811886362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3789/2509/files/25782562944.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ce946_ea7661906cf4469c80a14f7126541279.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a107db_326b27ffd2c742fcbf5b92fe6278c8d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ed64d2_d873c92c7fb04bcfa2b33c7fe1a38870.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_c13c9fbf17a7468ca923e6fe80022f24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bcec6dcc8de243fc838afbec83118803.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6924eb_ccceeb8c016543e2ac346432d00be747.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80bfa9_ae2ca6610b4846ef96b48b95bb958bdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_87c021679bdc47cca7b5300faa08deb5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1206fbd2697436f99aac9899033b8ba.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_off000061e4.bin
f81fc07ec71c54ec07f6dbbc86d4df922f13d0b90e2b78d1205a3bb38ab6cd35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E4 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007401.bin
b9815d0caf355074677730e5f1221981148870ab7fdce61376582a91675115e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7401 9896 bytes