Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e0594f76abe1262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 21:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 879a89854501482840f1710ab814537c SHA-1: 2448386bdd90377b43571c6253ed23d527633ca0 SHA-256: 7e0594f76abe1262da64252e4d36e372fc53185013fcb63c2db410851b5dbecd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=music+notes+and+beats+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to lead users to potentially harmful websites.

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=music+notes+and+beats+pdf
    • http://files.alaina-bartel.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164446/21376.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5861/files/daru_badnam_kardi_video_song_pagalworld._com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8692/0347/files/dieta_cetogenica_cardapio_semanal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8579/1393/files/dokovemarurabewavatizib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5205/6227/files/90338031613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7995/8679/files/3483674013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2935/6959/files/85097441211.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7919/7081/files/xatibojovuzajovelimitimog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2739/8807/files/26789722552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1268/4967/files/graph_paper_background.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1856/7335/files/faxoleva.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_off00006a5c.bin
488d232c8ad4528af6d53a002a13125577076546a47fbc82b392733e4279b656
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A5C 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c00.bin
6f8756eda6c5d302c6e7e74658f3cf3a5852725ac43674052ab448d0fb58e733
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C00 10148 bytes