Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74986e384e567d46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-09-08 17:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 010296c9ca1b81ee7ada581f2e102660 SHA-1: 4842dba7d084e93e78ce7704d8200874fc0291f0 SHA-256: 74986e384e567d462240428a167b5f235432416360c0ef1f1dbcfcd3ce1ef548
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded URLs, one of which, 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=pencil+art+tutorial+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The presence of numerous other links to benign Shopify PDFs indicates a potential SEO link farm tactic to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector.

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.club/wix?keyword=pencil+art+tutorial+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5967/5293/files/serolevagamovukolageba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6951/files/63594030150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/almug_icon_pack_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2835/7020/files/59988387331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5165/4047/files/mathematica_free_crack.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1d3654_18838872a1cb44eb9ad5450af02299e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_39d81684580c4dd28b12c0f9d544ca45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c4e45_81f157967fa542bdaafb657bee0b26ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc6899_8ea153c0f4d64de791ffef94245d05e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fafc38_9f06545c8af24b8da314be9f58fa9b8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1acd69_d8df2e7655344cbf87b93d9c5512ed97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_5e74e339e4a7472c9f75793f869e8a0b.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000087d3.bin
6c95f3fa2bd175076c6cf272b489568028d324fec0e3c6ada4e3cd41acc398c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87D3 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098cf.bin
1dae59302bfc8f62b06a4d70c0f43ce0ccd87a8c62d77187889c0b00a71a71db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98CF 9924 bytes