Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e927e4b4ab78d926…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 19:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d0463b7af3fb80fa961b6696cd43805 SHA-1: 04380f794406e78032aabfc330cf05d4a517c72e SHA-256: e927e4b4ab78d92609f99ef7955ffb8255de8604abc8504032fc53d6d12fe743
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically disguised as a search result for "Klavier rammstein piano sheet". The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF was flagged for linking to known malicious redirectors. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and the nature of the PDF structure suggest a social engineering lure to drive traffic to a malicious site.

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.link/wix?keyword=klavier+rammstein+piano+sheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dd980_87943158d894470bb2a762536962fe2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_5e31a9a1a5754594beef20b9211e50f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_f57cfc6ab71a45ffa55d184acb1df6b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/91e123_231eb08e2b1042258f73f14d91659793.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cf392_95df29df471d49c798bcd52b19987851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3985/7572/files/57701806985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/3264/9368/files/teatv_windows_7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc8a8e_a1fe653456a14441ad8bb3fa610e4fee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef2b933a735040d496d20ab50877c2cd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8966cdd46d774439b8575ae65da3d8bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_729d092be7254e4cacead38842b70740.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/062c90_1856ec02ec1445a1a8fb20ddca1fbe60.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_off00004978.bin
9cf45f486053b62298b85e189718a55f2865587574423dc2f26d65329b4ae9ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4978 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005aa2.bin
dcb2a39c7abdcea0baa4522bf41307b459125535a51dff69a08f175609f31ef3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AA2 10204 bytes