Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 749b3ded15dccd0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 90f95da17616d05ad79b92d03e310ccf SHA-1: 1487fc18537f8bcd20d5bab0c28ff7830e8acc96 SHA-256: 749b3ded15dccd0d6e154c16501df36d2b14a65532e779df7eb83c6b2f568137
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=laszlo+polgar+chess'. 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/wix?keyword=laszlo+polgar+chess
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/30432410472.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4256/0407/files/16290096035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7733/files/atheros_csi_tool.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8723/files/43262253771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0655/8359/files/napawuvilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8983/6697/files/kigivizamijan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/fixama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/5778975147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/81592894410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0944/0924/files/oecd_tp_guidelines_2018.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ee1cf382a9e47acaf634a3dbb58835d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_4cfa3f1f440448318b0e1a48a854f94d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3192a14a0fbe4f5593de9274581fa9d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_c7decf94f47a4471b0893e7f0167375e.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_off0000715a.bin
534b69613434a94b15a23b683e9517bfd8da54771128ec1d2b7900f387b9d35d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x715A 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008306.bin
93ef5228b3403a60b598ed5ec49958338b9dcfc5ce81cbb583ea4320f2188043
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8306 11064 bytes