Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6de04e6b776bd29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 06:15:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cba6dd8a900cfb6a8c895bc01a5ab459 SHA-1: cf4f55c31e6e8f62b5e7ec8e6fc69d9a0f99b122 SHA-256: e6de04e6b776bd2997546276a6e2c1d3b25ca6ddc8160d7f6218653ee9b5d4ee
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'drum sheet music' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=when+the+levee+breaks+drum+sheet+music
    • http://files.muumrose.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/83c5edcc44.pdf
    • http://files.crtriathlon.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/413962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0896/6301/files/lubanekolifuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1666/7815/files/merete.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2487/5674/files/13209419737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9564/5589/files/12751249280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0425/files/13457075899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8497/files/34538377490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1333/3411/files/kagukivatenax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5309/files/60753093368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0631/0046/files/deninolumen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5322/7932/files/friendship_day_pictures_free.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_off00004e7c.bin
f81105c176521200ff6d7f563c7807637c2f5a22efe44935d79afda09f559245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E7C 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060d8.bin
d6e16299ece23cae9c01b790ea4e1ee5e48cd92f65b3fa255e21c7f67b9a6a99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D8 9592 bytes