Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69caabc3f038f9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: da3b719b077de0c9c9314a0d1291d887 SHA-1: 8df6d05133e8cfa1b85f9c379d0d417e4075fa13 SHA-256: a69caabc3f038f9aa45a455c6a90c9d667843e9f0d4de9d80bf96a97e4999405
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as piano sheet music. The document body and embedded links further support this, pointing to a link farm strategy. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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=careless+whisper+piano+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.theygavetheirtoday.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740180/b33f6ff26c3c.pdf
    • http://mikoro.vikramshankar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/cf726.pdf
    • http://files.impalac.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/5b78ccf2e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3964/files/mesuleselulazapumolupan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/49472458132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9941/files/87175021475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4007/9005/files/jinigidaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78394199391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6453/9798/files/zusakuvufawibazetolatof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5107/1126/files/65716696130.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/circle_class_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gevuruliwineda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1418/5372/files/muduneb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1035/1513/files/panebupaxined.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_off00004aff.bin
b41db3adeefc186d11836cde809dd30634c8a72095d275621040f03f5971e42c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AFF 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d3a.bin
26ecd9119fdf52ea5e9ff82dd712a27a8cd4e8177b168280ae06b3a556b448d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D3A 12124 bytes