Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e8a6b4ebcb9cd57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 03:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3349be68321d79d39a98a3949fd895cc SHA-1: 8371f6f82777cda605a4f9ae54a0f14fcac2347c SHA-256: 5e8a6b4ebcb9cd570675f0fe8c78e9d52b2a96675e59946569e11839610bdf1c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=cello+suite+no+1+piano+sheet+music'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous external links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to sheet music.

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.cc/wix?keyword=cello+suite+no+1+piano+sheet+music
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ce99a55629c4b23afebda09f8cda3de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da5208c95279464f8ddee75f4edd6cd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e6328_33bb89ad7f244208bb71d7172747e539.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63022f_a0e4b48578d3471a99908f02fd86b6e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_71d1f74cd32d4fc3920592b86b8f8fdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b910ae_269aca2b939a46459d0339cb183e56a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39cb9d_791f5187aded402ca601dff5947d3668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0440/3613/files/64511141516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2249/1541/files/50_cent_21_questions_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/miniwubapuvekuviviku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2089/3851/files/90067957144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7637/files/workkeys_applied_technology.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000047dc.bin
5f15d71386ebe9b0e4f5471230d8f6c6cd7054b2564ac2fb249d54d57deb18e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47DC 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058d5.bin
c58f7a0952ed3b94d898f251ff3f7c558b58a97cb6eb94901584336c4cc9e4d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58D5 11528 bytes