Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79929c67099a6fbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 08:19:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 397960625736b4d104f045e786de3762 SHA-1: 55fcd47079f48b648fe94c6d989734f4d6c638bb SHA-256: 79929c67099a6fbe4344f2d779dc310f65ed94381d111f689e7b210a35d80ac4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'violin sheet music' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to entice users to click the link.

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=arrival+of+the+birds+violin+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.cozlounge.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968984/6356311.pdf
    • http://xobumap.andrewsbyreferral.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/6304497.pdf
    • http://malit.alabamaheritage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437605/105b4ba8309.pdf
    • http://files.spaatthecolonnade.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739366/5634133.pdf
    • http://files.benjamincraig.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483020/4583910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/lezezulubimosal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0409/8722/files/gudasodinot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3508/1374/files/ignou_b._ed_study_material.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0124/2022/files/kewusenujigupisum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4162/7029/files/72826933184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9560/files/50918712475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9001/7430/files/65404295762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0222/5059/files/xawikulonomot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5799/files/14492240189.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_off00005e22.bin
316937cd34ca6072584196b567632d6c4fcd9ab52f5a6aa6c7db841448a967d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E22 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070ec.bin
af2f7f0e0d90d6fa6e36b40db904f847aa56d839e6ced19127ba101827991f90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EC 15732 bytes