Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89cc8f2ddf0695a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 01:42:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a781f070750f29c7377fbe39e8c11b0b SHA-1: bdc0f303a0f6f80946cf630243c57304732aeea5 SHA-256: 89cc8f2ddf0695a637b2819eda70bfe0daf42e7b552e6ca8f73e1ccd0d487db7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=reading+guitar+notes+on+sheet+music'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity under a lure related to 'reading guitar notes'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=reading+guitar+notes+on+sheet+music
    • http://files.amillennialstory.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969235/77235.pdf
    • http://files.penny-funeralcelebrant.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070911/609411.pdf
    • http://files.jakemacshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695828/a2d22b4f.pdf
    • http://files.woodyshticks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/ritozo_luwubuvilul_bizifodoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5944/9749/files/cracking_the_sat_physics_subject_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xugifewelogukepebokiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8924/5861/files/rorovapusawabobofaxumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3880/1061/files/bunijuvirojemusesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7263/4533/files/31504171554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4595/9333/files/cds_entrance_exam_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9989/6475/files/84444075268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3283/8298/files/82663430929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/practice_present_simple.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7270/7990/files/edible_plants_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3772/7637/files/calculus_and_its_applications_bittinger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0225/6795/files/vrus_e_bactrias_resumo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007f03.bin
af4163b9568bdc9bda16768799bcd3a6ed0c701dbd333772a0d706632f8cd41a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F03 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000090eb.bin
b33b99723709d65393e75e96bde8969f2d7e801a017147581d3d7d44d4222c59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90EB 9732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b27f.bin
dbe3dd64dc066f428802739f18684eaf08c446fcda8cbe88d420f1ef9ee6b29b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB27F 16100 bytes