Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa76c5b4b01cc2ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 15:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31074bfaf4c871cca5930b56944fc360 SHA-1: cbd5f93ca78360f20895fac0d509021de66f981b SHA-256: fa76c5b4b01cc2eef2b7d3d391655b732ecef347f64942a88106dbf678dbd580
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, indicating an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content under the guise of providing piano sheet music.

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+easy+classical
    • http://files.online-workouts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452771/rixotibexipe.pdf
    • http://junoz.solutionfm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/53a78.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3220/5722/files/91362290853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3566/4284/files/20008466296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7752/3861/files/jessore_board_jsc_2017_marksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8179/3698/files/51164139983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1058/7800/files/godomagowazoluzoxidedid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8206/files/85515154972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mejiwevabefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5745/3985/files/personality_disorders_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7152/0409/files/23503038261.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_off000070cf.bin
e48a1d03567a99e619093387f861dc1305327e2215d3c5bdd7fcad5338d91a61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CF 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081d4.bin
2a2e3fc29002b81fc8636671ef3063685fc54d17b4cfbec1b2009d42d003490c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81D4 12108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a958.bin
84650fe671c70ac66f3af0994468c9b9feb42d01905b0f030d5781e095ef8e52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA958 16100 bytes