Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 008b2b24559b280e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

28.9 KB Created: 2018-06-11 08:44:50 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 67bc9cc7cad1f4512d56bf46e9c9fbdd SHA-1: ebc7f158d194ab8b300551e6d7684e6eb6f9170f SHA-256: 008b2b24559b280e3f55445c8952a183ea7f5cb0b02cda218499f526b1dfba49
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as a fake download lure using SEO poisoning techniques. It presents itself as a user manual but contains links to external URLs, such as http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=siemens-gigaset-4170-isdn-user-manual.pdf, which likely serve as a gateway to distribute malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9677

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=siemens-gigaset-4170-isdn-user-manual.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=siemens-gigaset-4170-isdn-user-manual.pdf
    • https://www.transistornet.de/
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/star-wars-the-corellian-trilogy-showdown-at-centerpoint-book-3.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/study-guide-algebra-structure-and-method-book-1-answers.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/white-blood-cell-structure-diagram.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/virginia-oncology-associates.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/unknown-comic-book-facts.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/suzuki-sj-400.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-blue-star-a-novel-reprint-edition.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/small-engine-workbook-answer-key.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wedding-cards-design-online-free.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-discovery-of-longitude.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://www.manualslib.com/manual/651637/Siemens-Gigaset-Sx100-Isdn.html
    • https://www.manualslib.com/brand/siemens/telephone-accessories.html
    • https://www.manualslib.com/products/Siemens-Gigaset-Sx100-Isdn-3197026.html
    • http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-US&dl=en&lp=DE_EN&a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.transistornet.de%2f
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000035d7.bin
0adb32ba07a1b8ecc6cd45c7abaf7c485943881f1d906d2f186d94282f0bf475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x35D7 10256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005675.bin
fc65b333d9d494039c596ae51379383d715db56bba6540f5d48895474051c201
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5675 7540 bytes