Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09d26baadcf6f7ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-05-18 13:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a819f6e8b748bb12bc2fb44118e577be SHA-1: ef756dde13b957bbcf2f7a60b82bec65dcc3813a SHA-256: 09d26baadcf6f7ca2a0b078e4a7601a333e7c4822f881084ad0d1bfb20f7c502
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The embedded document body text, while appearing to be about language exercises, is likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to numerous external PDF files hosted on various domains. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of external links points to a malicious campaign, likely involving the distribution of further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://purelinewellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550736/130550736.html#exercicis+de+diftongs+hiats+i+triftongs
    • http://strategicfinancialvision.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589097/6099401.pdf
    • http://kleenapt.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289421/rukuxonikuregi-kijefa-bidenexov-bidojabixawiki.pdf
    • http://ghostsquadserver.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163712/7bccef0ca9dd7.pdf
    • http://industryr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814462/6eea13b36a4bf49.pdf
    • http://wpleague.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164319/2ed56722edffc.pdf
    • http://gcchurchva.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969744/xowifagovoju.pdf
    • http://declareservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/6657392.pdf
    • http://drhandysays.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589288/pixugen.pdf
    • http://donaflora.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379015/xekuladi_ledewonav.pdf
    • http://jessicawcheung.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483336/385705.pdf
    • http://pawinefestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775505/7057268.pdf
    • http://mayetpinspections.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636764/021c3e92e7b84.pdf
    • http://compostpick-up.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163623/5af4c.pdf
    • http://ajachinger.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291766/5847548.pdf
    • http://acasesoriascolombia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382430/6283405.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061bc.bin
c550ca86eb7973f16f7d0d56c58aaadefe87a145bd9eaf00f99cfaa87581a4cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BC 12064 bytes