Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2738190e98cf73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 07:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ca3d0c858311838499faeba69833f224 SHA-1: 40d85251905e33f7120f18ccc87e44855eaee9f1 SHA-256: 8c2738190e98cf73e8a7fb7bc3df626c2f821132f887650ab1c54f4f65b7e557
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, a technique often used to redirect users to malicious sites. Specifically, one URL points to a known malicious redirector, and the document body text is obfuscated but contains references to sheet music and the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports the malicious intent.

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=another+one+bites+the+dust+bass+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.bryangatescfi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874030/cbde3.pdf
    • http://files.ashleymaltzmd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775677/7635624.pdf
    • http://files.stmarymagdalenewpg.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856531/badifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3973/files/pofixigivarozan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4494/4542/files/online_bengali_story_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6409/8970/files/46480898284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/67278892571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6049/4490/files/34458487311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9730/files/628458957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0141/3785/files/cathflo_activase_instructions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3681/0152/files/zivujimitakedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9191/0038/files/project_on_social_issues_for_class_10_cbse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6622/8898/files/linexixasejoxib.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_off000042f5.bin
bef60d0c02f5cf4de15f31b8ef3267865d1440bdc9e8aa6ebd62aad04c0f29cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42F5 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000556f.bin
1e3a15048ec68972a311b2e09fb28bcd4cd1482ac6aeda1c9bbeb3868061962f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x556F 9640 bytes