Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aafc1c490784900e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1212b27b32eb9f47eb0ea51144b2c082 SHA-1: 31ba40b9330cedebdb13daa8034f1f85b0763fd9 SHA-256: aafc1c490784900e0d225f0863977e4650af758deb16ba7a2b6e4323f4b4b661
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, with a primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains text related to sheet music and the authoring application, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the embedded URLs designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

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=forbidden+love+abel+korzeniowski+sheet+music
    • http://files.activewavesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741181/rigena.pdf
    • http://files.dad-ventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437490/tojujewilev_jarodanedidek.pdf
    • http://files.geo4u.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606227/c83a019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6402/5493/files/75376662986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2204/9695/files/intensive_vs_extensive_properties_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6048/5541/files/duxixawujukijikoliguzetat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2214/0070/files/blockchain_technology_explained_norman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6421/4182/files/capitales_de_tous_les_pays_du_monde.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1801/7175/files/ragepim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2208/8354/files/jspdf_html_to_angular_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7617/3472/files/riker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0894/8386/files/resting_metabolic_rate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5042/5750/files/38046272949.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6619/2035/files/71761663967.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_off0000605e.bin
7710c5aac063ce78f47c2833af226ce16129c7b4061324e3f34738561fa98ea2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x605E 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007324.bin
c941a66bd7568fd0d97227990c6e998df0de85c73259cdcb9ca47b6014f379a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7324 10192 bytes