Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b459803dca0722e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 101d160c1c58f449bd5401cc659e7a9a SHA-1: a06057f65bd66573e719bbf938f3ee07731cd71a SHA-256: 8b459803dca0722e0ee44252be2a23f64ba840fe6852cabcf4004fc2e34d1bf0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though partially garbled, includes text related to 'advanced flute solos free sheet music', suggesting a lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a malicious redirector link indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=advanced+flute+solos+free+sheet+music
    • http://files.alphaeta-ucsf.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695525/gozuwaponotigifexap.pdf
    • http://files.ncnats.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379249/278029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7596/8662/files/10807468236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3862/9275/files/aicte_handbook_2019-_20.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1518/4277/files/statistical_quality_control_eugene_grant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5048/4390/files/engineering_drawing_handbook_hb7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9588/files/how_to_change_password_on_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4949/files/81807077622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4782/1205/files/66622482596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6032/9637/files/46176735939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9367/2604/files/67864688597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6885/files/boiler_testing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6632/files/45124407981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lebalod.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_off00007055.bin
11e422c05cfdbc640be2280ba5c998824d6c6d643d6352685c06c401b4a7c458
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7055 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008239.bin
e9b966256065951a216ca8b24028b845b2e508d53b7b392eb30bb81139e0f465
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8239 10352 bytes