Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56b7d34d749691d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 35f6f9ead821bd8dfa7a90288f0f53c8 SHA-1: 809eb26d23080c88ece718ed6fee71c436434079 SHA-256: 56b7d34d749691d3397ab2163ffb5e32426d7d3cf6a212f34f61a36f0386aefa
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Carol of the bells piano sheet pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=carol+of+the+bells+piano+sheet+pdf
    • http://files.greensborobibleinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681436/bebuwuwepaxowinab.pdf
    • http://files.chtcredclay.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606179/fitover-ketefoni-fefilelokerera-zadunova.pdf
    • http://dutopa.rmcreation.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/7524194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6551/5933/files/2558398940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/medopono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/13702117450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6727/7469/files/difikidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4897/6027/files/procd_de_contact_acide_sulfurique.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1751/0818/files/xodidujarobilitizuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3250/1656/files/44169930453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9910/9016/files/biluporemija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0542/5310/files/semantic_barriers_to_effective_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8363/5619/files/omission_of_articles_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5320/3102/files/wiwuvuseregolenepopekajaf.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_off000061f2.bin
b24431e5d1eea695c7bc88220cff628535f0b77447657760bfdc8272258b7c47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F2 5176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000737f.bin
9a8216ce27ae7633797bdad79d6620e8d32ae4f0d296580cf428f4ceb7ed02dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737F 10756 bytes