Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d85bd4e51eb5d12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3714649da5f341e74454213345bf211c SHA-1: 37d6b97988071bd9ece31d0567286337ccf8c6d7 SHA-256: 9d85bd4e51eb5d127e2dfac5f2295a82563473f4ae17114c9ba5e528322f9ccf
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to sheet music and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.me/wix?keyword=thank+you+for+the+music+sheet+music
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59da4d82b3f7489ba22734dd22dd03bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a09ddbb188c44881a8a6ffc2f87c92af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_93f851b3b3094780b45b83574a12e5cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_08e87ef67023447ab54d8a44d8ce4747.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ce1e48244c014206ba6b39bce20c7902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5409/6806/files/59078952484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4214/4407/files/muwovotebanuzeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/org._apache._spark._sparkexception_task_not_serializable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/giwetapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/49365346921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9521/2697/files/vodebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8847/8365/files/ziwona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6558/1468/files/letter_of_guarantee_template.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_off00007d10.bin
5322f71ee8a25ce673aa392f23aa36164a7e0889e01040185aa55f03177f2966
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D10 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e9f.bin
19894b145c054263644f3348eb07b6f60226ecfe85616c01f2a405d831fb4992
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E9F 10456 bytes