Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbeb06d7bb1b5847…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:31:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f2495373c5547720618ff4e6e9ce3a1 SHA-1: f24f3e3ab1a59e838d30e4415812727f27a72b93 SHA-256: dbeb06d7bb1b584763335c44a6097b4c85f0afbdd896862a24be7ef85503ba2e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dj+music+maker+app'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to 'static.usrfiles.com', suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/pify?keyword=dj+music+maker+app
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ae03b30485084813961b24a2ed935480.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0490332ced44525988ae3e4ed2cb481.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cafbaa95d8724e1cbb564a3883c79c92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_575eeb01167d49938156ad861ba7b5be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aa28568802844c82bf3acaf25de470f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3c183f253f8f4238940474038910a9e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cf28d_17c9955c2f4044ac8d89693da1ede13f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ff21_88e86d098bd0428c8128308a09415e71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2857/8467/files/business_management_skills_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/14824576689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9373/7886/files/71282214843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2097/files/zenedejajej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1053/1238/files/61953029857.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_f5485dc758d7441ea59ea5eb3cdac3d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_558be57c9b444ec29405b26a0a826d00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735189_239d68ed622544f89b004a3196fc2e8e.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_off00006e00.bin
f19cff27dfa161377c7fdba994ae30c53cd855e85a53fc6610b7cf327586b6b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E00 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f9e.bin
06a601ff20788d4f0bbf7e13212e56456008bd27e67db4a84bf630970f02ef77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F9E 10788 bytes