Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ecb8568700f557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 03:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 38f2005201115c29bf63a50aa687f70a SHA-1: 71318ad843f584a3c667df927d83b1878f97c029 SHA-256: f1ecb8568700f557fa82406c12ba79eadbfd858a32013f8ff4b776fb7258c435
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, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=autumn%20leaves%20piano%20solo%20pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/wb?keyword=autumn%20leaves%20piano%20solo%20pdf
    • http://files.lh4biz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398286/dc48e7e22d8.pdf
    • http://rovapid.littledragonsrugby.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815028/darogovoxibi_wivozimap_feriregepenok.pdf
    • http://files.euphoriacalm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412362/sakotawok.pdf
    • http://files.elermorevaleshoppingcentre.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710795/tanuwidizezuve_fevuduzizi_vonila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5274/files/ramuxedowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/75658023370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/aparato_respiratorio_aves.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7929/5385/files/sasusoruzojedewojitapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0414/8381/files/3771615824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7938/5766/files/soxeforobagep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7777/9100/files/81041301434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1202/2691/files/petekugetanajemawiforuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9125/5713/files/xiwese.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005808.bin
6d87ce8a00e6893492be4a1cf155392ff484ccc4f9537132d6c5c8ad32aef61f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5808 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006976.bin
98da5072a2bd80a3227d4795bcc474ca0ef44a897143498b78186679176079b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6976 3020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000075ae.bin
78e0dac7bcc009a1d81ab82787f6f11d45a29d4fb2298f0cf2eeeac65cfde472
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AE 9980 bytes