Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6581e51a52991859…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 01:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a33c6bb4ea3b16727526de44cced1e15 SHA-1: 4e6946b85b0eb4ac6a1eb54bf7061d11aaa2f9b0 SHA-256: 6581e51a5299185926d8ee84d3b5a6e8cf43b0ff134509526d712b622ed8baaf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=let+it+go+piano+accompaniment+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/pify?keyword=let+it+go+piano+accompaniment+pdf
    • http://files.appletreekidz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740462/acc09e8ed.pdf
    • http://files.countrymileschnauzers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380546/jijolulebi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7687/7478/files/asus_crashfree_bios_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1357/files/30937392939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7753/2822/files/personal_hygiene_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2574/4540/files/abrupto_placentario.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6656/2462/files/94828926824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/miocardiopatia_dilatada_nios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7697/5768/files/comparative_superlative_exercises_junior_b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0319/1193/files/nakama_2_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/44976389112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5071/files/41822538100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8317/7885/files/read_bossypants_online_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9557/2126/files/segmentation_analysis.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_off00004f72.bin
14ab1ff60fdee0fe8042201343abbdd1db4f6ae430a9c01fdd65154fe4db93a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F72 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060ca.bin
80f24d020a78e60bcbc400e9149ec58051449be2631e735d3eb68e07f5ab9e8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60CA 9668 bytes