Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83d9c8c276c4a626…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:38:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f39d7e39cc0132a25d3d987543e7da7 SHA-1: 4d38e4800500420ecf8dd9caa3091ea05bdd8169 SHA-256: 83d9c8c276c4a6266842d9be682dfb77241580ff624c63e47935e7ce78b8db81
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as free sheet music, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a malicious redirector link. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics point to a social engineering lure to drive traffic to a malicious site.

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.ru/pify?keyword=sleigh+ride+trumpet+sheet+music+free+pdf
    • http://files.portlandpipes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382320/5383176.pdf
    • http://files.slowcoachsydney.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070230/kapuzaz-sugesesoje-baduvu.pdf
    • http://tisuk.chairpoetryevenings.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452883/7533191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2831/6313/files/disokuwen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7506/7297/files/vobejewifijisugubanafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8567/6188/files/manuale_officina_majesty_250_dx.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2895/3763/files/sunrise_sunset_boston.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7791/9129/files/organic_chemistry_klein.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0133/9304/files/69690900982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8986/0510/files/howto_get_anime_back_on_vyond_github.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0336/2973/files/zugebuledigenexofez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96672573922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45366335679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0227/3697/files/14689396010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6369/6799/files/wilibepemozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/30936358609.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_off0000456c.bin
2769a56d45fc3bd5249247864b7b2e3ea915d0a7937d4103a40ce5c0789be73d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x456C 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057da.bin
5d56103f9dc23af1cc693d95475cb53eb7faf13dbe3387d681f8de302cfb8cc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57DA 10188 bytes