Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 617c20bc21e17d03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 317ce2bd66b760c4fab78c373aff58a7 SHA-1: c8885c9063d7526a3248ea1f471dbf1bf2c19710 SHA-256: 617c20bc21e17d03b5260c29a31a205db0dfa914f3b063dad2d6e8a3536bc2d1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to sheet music and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to generate traffic. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the link farm hypothesis, indicating an attempt to drive users to potentially malicious content.

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=let+it+go+flute+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_74685e69a69b45278336bd239f22aefe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f07a1_8866888fd5564f0b81a359f3bbc65564.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6e04b37cf8234c69b4a55d7882f1f717.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b48b60_0bff4cd37078402290a26753c54ee7d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b47872eb1fc74acd89e7d333ae2f581c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_62d7b69ebc454a2b9dafce67a7fec14d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fbdda2062e194e7c9f12cf4085951b7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33ace708e8524835b9e9b6d815723726.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7082a_91bef2b2174b48a18b1bb79ad46ad178.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6dec77c6d46b470ea3f56922e1c7dda0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9825/8088/files/sop_apgar_score.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7087/1970/files/8242690674.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9573/6988/files/norudug.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077a0.bin
513dad50ad8ab3437bfea5cfdc9cea86d3520939c4fb72a4f7fbd310889e9d7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A0 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008940.bin
f1856e6dd3d44edb9c9b06c09b22ac4ed9e58db4a01f6a120aae2102a8ae6af9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8940 10284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000acc0.bin
84650fe671c70ac66f3af0994468c9b9feb42d01905b0f030d5781e095ef8e52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACC0 16100 bytes