Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7febe1c6b278f608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-09-06 02:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2be58bb05e58916b6ebe85dac8e1c8f4 SHA-1: 52c990bca344d8ae38a9db2feb46c6774560944d SHA-256: 7febe1c6b278f608cb4b4a2ebbb120e2f2bcf22124e568b83ea0796674981490
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a piano sheet music download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and references to piano sheets, reinforcing the lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.me/wix?keyword=blinded+by+your+grace+piano+sheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/62438518419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7392/files/bangladesh_govt_holiday_calendar_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9456/5271/files/assetto_corsa_car_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7916/4064/files/bodyguard_tamil_hd_movie.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_7033b3529c644937943c021547f5c837.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d21c0_bdc41afdd39d45ccbf98ffe0562e9b52.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/205ae4_a8bfb25408f947b4bbd3591be72fd9d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_a913829837d94c3483bbf3f64964b6da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_4cf9516ffbed4051a54c381a5e9cba19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a7fb1_b075645c93e14d0bb23dd35b850f874e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9edd50_ade62cd7c1204e2bb8eea0c46d63ea75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26938b_d330315694ac44fbb112e6d420a47ba5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de0641df50584bab972dbbf8f128adac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_0298284f1f944781948bb772f048e934.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_off0000445f.bin
f8981cc120d8246d876900fb691620aa1fe76e87e8b7645ef27d1af92aa91082
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x445F 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005778.bin
ba1a6d528c3768f18de1ad054f8b4937f551c94d2e6bc9d61f971dffa8c25080
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5778 9672 bytes