Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0636336163634592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-03-21 19:43:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 647846f39677afcf816b0264e13dcf09 SHA-1: abdbd03f73cd87bb332dc81b6ecc529a83dc930e SHA-256: 06363361636345922a2a34f5c73b181e3a526c099203fc8469d97f3d4793b4bf
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are algorithmically generated and point to PDF files, suggesting a link farm or a mechanism for distributing further malicious content. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes 'Usps priority mail include insurance', indicating a lure to trick users into clicking on the provided links. The presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly suggest malicious intent, likely leading to phishing or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://allamericanhandyman.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813400/130813400.html#usps+priority+mail+include+insurance
    • http://treredbeats.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620948/sidelo.pdf
    • http://noradavis.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739011/7279694.pdf
    • http://chanisehurst.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776229/9351738.pdf
    • http://mx.cochrantonfair.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738972/8488963.pdf
    • http://www.fiestasyeventoscristal.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639117/zuxuliv_gumiwopowoga_lomejeditem_dakofukuzixur.pdf
    • http://johncwitt.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621498/59b703e6dcd7.pdf
    • http://chaselea.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775756/24ca5.pdf
    • http://americantheaterforpuppetryarts.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476616/1d9243ab391ca.pdf
    • http://shopsanctuarymtk.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/joxananizebuwatij.pdf
    • http://bloordaleblog.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588299/1307160102f3.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_off00006aa5.bin
84266ab9e8effb175c9b730d54a5ded94117a2f4cb38cad4fb132780fd070b9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AA5 8256 bytes