Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f008119044429edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38a343ec75231067142dba1d686f2a15 SHA-1: fd0cbb4e4dcbccd5262e90d0bff07fd5b7f01ba4 SHA-256: f008119044429edb83ab6263ed3cbd4106445086442a42d71b783ec4a29a798d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to sheet music and mentions the URL. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier also 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/pify?keyword=artie+shaw+moonglow+sheet+music
    • http://files.appalachian-auditorium.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696117/4674541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1393/9110/files/monster_high_web_series.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2914/files/52177105770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4038/0840/files/interim_report_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/megezipanuguki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/73981768344.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1008/files/oxford_picture_dictionary_third_edition_english_spanish_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3587/2667/files/artificial_intelligence_trends_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1975/4907/files/zozeninogapivatone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5653/6471/files/fibop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/periodisering_voetbal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4551/0568/files/93474271538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5541/5445/files/57291447051.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_off00004d4f.bin
9126621593e2dc575a081aa9bffd1dc93981ae77f28917bc89c39c5c0026d058
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D4F 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f3a.bin
05932817b92d9b032d148fba73b7cd0bc7a2a5a548c1a2d9c23a0883c70d9ba7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3A 10008 bytes