Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93e64f74c0afdbeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e0e3542ea5fdf21285c75baf2228131 SHA-1: 773dd041ee97db67b5d7f364b105a4e8ec7e597d SHA-256: 93e64f74c0afdbeb98e8b13a5f3a9069562989cc6c9f51e4d337e0ec78283924
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains multiple embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.com`. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and references sheet music, likely a lure.

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.com/pify?keyword=unchain+my+heart+sheet+music+joe+cocker
    • http://files.wecreativedosolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739789/xeriluredoserusek.pdf
    • http://files.theartofexperiment.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969811/jewisili_zezonovagijupu_fonidenodone.pdf
    • http://files.msbender.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813364/2b7f8.pdf
    • http://files.stmarysfamily.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380295/ff921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5767/files/pufovomudaxugemijikiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/xawipobixewogite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4763/3575/files/vamigekuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67295211500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5553/8591/files/dunn_and_dunn_learning_styles_inventory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8581/6218/files/5662510308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31968244380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rerotapok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/jufamoruvazemusik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0654/0445/files/58491864796.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_off0000493a.bin
1d53352c93fe6135b66305a67c1993a01f5f553ec1854f99584d2e9a93c01992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x493A 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005adb.bin
3b080bac41c0a48105e1e25fed0b72e990f3989188272953c3f82448fef77aee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ADB 10224 bytes