Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 058cc0ec7f162fe8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.8 KB Created: 2020-04-09 14:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 8cdc93f4f0d8c1ad1baa3902f56f3562 SHA-1: a439b31d752c253071bfb6d83a742b9abb5242e7 SHA-256: 058cc0ec7f162fe8bfa1c4265b27fe1b8f55c8bcaaf6205108849e3fcf1d2208
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files with numeric slugs, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a network of potentially malicious or spam-related content hosted on numerous domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://nutrizionistagiuliaporcu.it/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550756/130550756.html#ordenacion+del+territorio+definicion PDF link annotation
    • http://lyfelinescertificationandstaffing.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639404/dixitixojobodajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outofthenightjourney.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621160/4aa59bd6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctaincnc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739318/040ad30a08b4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indigorealms.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640162/7397406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noevalleycontemporary.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291939/fujeguso-zewajovimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expressrelocators.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639147/mipabun-karum-pukowe-moketadiluxufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quantumfrequencyai.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070559/5831924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barkproper.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476575/9641147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketplaceposting.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069899/67a9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clkdesign.ca/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289332/degelalafakosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winefestmv.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483875/3431827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logoless.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775071/7968551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonandbackministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407742/negusativu_navivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkrishnan.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476158/biposesapapisoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AC 9288 bytes
SHA-256: bcc0b290978aa941bd3e52e09707417a0756f241b73c4e504926888d1c96e165