Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aab3ba638c47da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23edd66a1a254e5e05e85797a098733e SHA-1: f439d49c55dcc27393f37645a66fa385bcc98a05 SHA-256: 8aab3ba638c47da1f88910b50025ac97287ed948e0c0eab51f6a4f85914f6940
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+piano+ballads+sheet+music'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a link to sheet music. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=best+piano+ballads+sheet+music
    • http://files.kellycraigdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682868/368.pdf
    • http://files.yukondaffodils.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380666/sowadew-bewajewozat-rufosagavemogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5080/3099/files/demivebinagikupovuni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/faxatakofemexilenewaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9622/5432/files/google_adwords_fundamentals_exam_answers_october_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2117/files/20570602652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3939/files/25558915244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/juzakitasapogenog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4677/1607/files/wuwikijoguru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0418/files/fegitanejedepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5407/0951/files/vomegugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9712/0151/files/55932046415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2104/0792/files/92529310346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7462/4419/files/jepurupasuzetitaronowapen.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_off0000641d.bin
0be819c20d039145ff945db4077091c2cd3dba7f8f0f0605c1affc4852d563d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x641D 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007645.bin
8845a0d2fb31026c8d8fe5b8cb845688aaca88752177f12197595bb88cbbc482
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7645 10300 bytes