Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0257aa160d9f174e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-03-14 13:26:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 0cec9ae6865aac8e12eeb584cfb83532 SHA-1: 6d1db3483c167dfe65b0ff5b43b2e69349fe244b SHA-256: 0257aa160d9f174e75b66f59b9836cb114c5831a61045eed5155dbbae82be929
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous external links, disguised as practice problems, which is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external URLs points to a likely download or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://xocobean.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740489/130740489.html#practice+algebra+2+problems+with+answers
    • http://www.cbd-uk.shop/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621673/975b000f5eff.pdf
    • http://mta-sts.mail.brothersgreenhouses.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323422/rujuza.pdf
    • http://massagehavenwestpueblogmail.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776716/lixebaweme.pdf
    • http://art.ayon.me/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639382/aca11e82c93f0d4.pdf
    • http://hostmaster.trappershop.be/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639306/3525732.pdf
    • http://savemycoffee.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312983/malizutud.pdf
    • http://sabrinastewart.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313218/5359777.pdf
    • http://wewantcoolstuff.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288673/9be218d.pdf
    • http://mta-sts.mxe.gsjmbcdayton.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483232/livasijojojiwikawow.pdf
    • http://attorneygarvey.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640006/a63ad188.pdf
    • http://provisionmediausa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776309/7902185.pdf
    • http://www.inlumoslibertas.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288986/9989410.pdf
    • http://www.anchorsaweighbodywaxing.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543546/6361700.pdf
    • http://www.kwestapp.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270985/famov_vopepo.pdf
    • http://patriotnationfirearms.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969527/2d8917bfb30c.pdf
    • http://bigislandsolarenergy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/1730297.pdf
    • http://abovetumblerridge.ca/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539419/semolef-xukolekewixezi-votebapo.pdf
    • http://kubestudio.io/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312924/letigujan-foxiz-nolitaz-zitedofifuse.pdf
    • http://weisgraslaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639228/8837605.pdf
    • http://thestorycollective.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287875/d039459.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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008180.bin
f8f53fec9538b03bc44f03905c40ba758aecde1dbccc56b14198200b8207595c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8180 8548 bytes