Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fdfb31285117a81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 19:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1861c7651cbf9cc73fb3d660b71c21c5 SHA-1: e561eaf181289e0f9a320c2d053c6503b96f7c58 SHA-256: 6fdfb31285117a81c238a71db8c46679eaa7f697c43fa57e8cd577edb15f94ea
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to sheet music. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to further malicious content, likely a phishing page or malware download. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient to infer malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=keane%20somewhere%20only%20we%20know%20sheet%20music%20pdf
    • http://files.topwebtravel.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741486/3687454.pdf
    • http://voritanu.larnemusicfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/kajiviv.pdf
    • http://files.tucsontattooexpo.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071151/bekobipal_nakokataw_rejezekiwum_kujim.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3128/files/91557067351.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7731/2411/files/dugitofizugo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1044/6744/files/path_of_the_bodhisattva_warrior.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5802/6904/files/kifekeman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5823/files/how_to_ace_the_brainteaser_interview.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8374/2884/files/sutomovedotupesabizar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0363/9970/files/bsc_2nd_year_chemistry_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7015/3113/files/25351802288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/vukejol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1197/3026/files/vewapurusulavuv.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_off0000525a.bin
1f624ba16d056f06a68b192f3d36ed455bcfcb8eab841bc0a8cd4f3c86da2250
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x525A 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006564.bin
151f609411c212930b5db22d37b04760459846223f413c8a81ed2fb3d83df67a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6564 10584 bytes