Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 079de1589ee7e38c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.6 KB Created: 2020-04-05 02:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: d0704f7c723fe631908828f6c68da4a6 SHA-1: 7e6c111004f48f72509446da82be04d4c5a4e8e5 SHA-256: 079de1589ee7e38c8735a3bdf807ef8d23606c1d453adf952dff0a43f7e5f648
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is designed as a lure, presenting itself as an image-based worksheet to trick users into clicking an embedded link. The link farm discovered within the document suggests a campaign to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 24 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://pdinternational.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437443/131437443.html#id+ego+superego+worksheet
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    • http://cornerstoneofaz.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813859/mexiwoxo.pdf
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