Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a279ed395bae67f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1632e7e0d8874dd2afac43aee4960277 SHA-1: 1adcfbeb53adde18cc161abac691932dd7d549a0 SHA-256: a279ed395bae67f87c60b406e4dc7cf903b6d3b6b3d6406bfe232be57f098d06
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to a known malicious redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=harry+potter+song+piano+sheet`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site under the guise of providing content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery.

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=harry+potter+song+piano+sheet
    • http://files.blackgoldwinterguard.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406222/xukujozonovit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5927/2090/files/jikelilevofowagexaten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4494/files/82449201305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8311/1325/files/child_care_subsidy_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/ritafabodenedoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4768/2201/files/72513221122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/algebra_and_general_mathematics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/mokomufola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6180/4197/files/68930526861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8942/0695/files/bodutisej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1954/files/gezajesiwoxupife.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_off00005556.bin
f491444816382d7b4884f7b093f482813467f6d0693175d022ed60f38df17c53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5556 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000066ba.bin
2fe37bd68917a6c7628d01c6e3d2ea5e1090d04bc720b1803f4e385559d34217
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66BA 10364 bytes