Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d922a22dac626d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 00:58:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dfb5476afdcc3fcf463d94aedd5679bf SHA-1: 789202ce5346f942e4d317d9e052139ec175b2e0 SHA-256: d922a22dac626d963965994e21cb8a6692e2637b3710f6dd60d91299a4d7caaa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a piano sheet music PDF. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=yesterday+once+more+piano+sheet+music+pdf', is designed to lead the user to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also contains a large number of links to static.usrfiles.com, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/wix?keyword=yesterday+once+more+piano+sheet+music+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_00f6da6b9eb74805bdcb834ec91d1cc1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_acbb15457539486ea5a29a4648c0df70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ca9236a8cce4246a9ea33e387d48a58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76426c93836a446db7be881da02757fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8c79d1e4fec24a21b436b33c2cb6f765.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_02d3e4587d254423a7fbd95ea432ab12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_29d15258593e44d387c7d55473aceaf8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0bb93717ae547a483ecad8353f8e0f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a0be487f52944c82adfb2723d1fd4d16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ddb5693a4e1948ef990733007f7e0f32.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/loxidunadubufurepetiverox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9183/5545/files/xelavodibubanuxiralifan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5339/0743/files/probability_theory.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_off000045b1.bin
d796e2b1550f81bb6b3554f7a284b36ea170c3e8b7e8c866cabc972e15054788
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45B1 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005804.bin
074f975c24d4fc0d1e308aa0ba75db9c52b6f032886d167b614d78883eb4e8c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5804 9820 bytes