Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb8d1a78b4f3102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 06:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3670a40030aa5490cf672203289230ec SHA-1: cca865a9bf4aae569dbc170d1493d655531c28ea SHA-256: ddb8d1a78b4f3102e203386f9cbb1d7dc42ce0c9426b76c358bb262157ac7d65
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as free piano sheet music. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a malicious redirector link.

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=piano+sheet+music+for+beginners+pdf+free
    • http://files.dianakemp.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398380/tilew.pdf
    • http://files.juliewiegand.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453480/dd1b72145be5fa.pdf
    • http://files.ypoceanside.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871642/fomegudaxozam_zinogevija_berum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6509/5845/files/jivejajosugijeniro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0690/2950/files/96264600660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6183/7981/files/xigagas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5152/2977/files/46740992027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4345/4102/files/wuforom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6421/4175/files/tininu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5072/1699/files/3270446421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9843/7784/files/83588712120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0941/7127/files/91117578544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3590/2631/files/24888525880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8998/3643/files/daily_ui_challenge_list.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_off000092ea.bin
2cecdbe86bfa196fe8eb1380d3ee32520e980bdf3877a3be7fe3051da56ba383
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92EA 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a60c.bin
774fe3f55e7dc16c91dd78e594db7f86ba9f26c5fd02235de847bab1c286f743
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA60C 10976 bytes