Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf6dec5bdd2f3dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 11:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32ab2c62a81298fa9fd12518baeaeb54 SHA-1: ea3c727f937007d01673f931c59d7afbfef34278 SHA-256: bf6dec5bdd2f3dfca8e0c938fce4e857106b12a18b4f321961ad682aa75a9a29
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=trumpet+sheet+music+happy+birthday'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is related to sheet music, likely a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution chain.

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=trumpet+sheet+music+happy+birthday
    • http://files.bpstis.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776822/wasopij-kemesuz-popesebul-kokefika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2068/9306/files/29964594687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9914/3838/files/97646814602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2273/7820/files/how_to_use_armitage_in_kali_linux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3407/4523/files/tamugik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1126/7990/files/32558078582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3579/4327/files/zuziwatoboginaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4728/1062/files/desuzaxitajodox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0831/9641/files/waveguide_coupler_directivity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mutim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4477/files/52570198773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botolewapaniwid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3557/4943/files/teduwewa.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_off00005e09.bin
046198473446fafecf4888c17bf8045d669809d3856ebdcd8a80d13a4d87f58f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E09 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000707f.bin
d50eaa9256071dd3b3eaea6db81bbbf645396d46e8ddffab1c2e59782d8dd090
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707F 10088 bytes