Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ec379c38ea9799a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.3 KB Created: 2020-09-07 21:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e93a1419d3ab165d556517b00d616497 SHA-1: 2918a0713a58d89ba9155f513d5f066a6eb98f6b SHA-256: 3ec379c38ea9799af6027c7ff2ecc13d360df3505fbc9fc1b71558e44e8cf2f2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised with a search query for 'twenty one pilots piano sheet music easy'. This suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking the link. The PDF also hosts a link farm pointing to various PDF files, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious redirector. 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.link/wix?keyword=twenty+one+pilots+piano+sheet+music+easy
    • https://musescore
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/46429b_5ee029c5bbcc472894f5e66d4e301716.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/47b1e8_7cbb1d6eb58449c0a984342024d22274.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c3cc08bbea914980af47646a1456721e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_607e5fb06bcc44f8b07ec7d86fae0efb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fe4d156699cb4103ae10e8fb5e5bc39a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2074c9_991a6f574e2646a29b76ed7dc701f694.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_bc6faf7e419f4c068ddf67138f0cdc0c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3548c_4ad6426372f649afa1d57f9e6c7e53f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d51d36_e66fa0618d974ac1a58f574c1ef71f4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aef5b7_21cd421fd1f0406c9b41771e67b6de31.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1641/files/jijuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4516/5975/files/mtg_arena_launcher_not_working.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1673/0277/files/komagew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3155/files/google_resume.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000748b.bin
9eb66007b4b17da00eeeeae2c5b2b641c03fc349d0840cf813536eca35e899c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x748B 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008640.bin
8971e42856647f49a0e2094e98251d68da9eed409e81d976c4ed0d7be36ffe3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8640 16628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000baf8.bin
46d9b83afd797048ab251ddfc9ca9a6db44f3280724c231f6a80a061bcc6fc12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF8 16120 bytes