Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd3ea9cd5d0ec8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-04-05 09:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 93e7e2342c7a164ee9cabc9e7766cfa7 SHA-1: db07b3d8a2e780b3747a50ea154b25ba5166eb5c SHA-256: 0cd3ea9cd5d0ec8f037d93faba1e7fb12241a6e0721cbc76e12d3dbeedf30567
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on unrelated domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates this is likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute spam. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to a network of potentially malicious or spam-related content.

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://allanparachinicustomfurniturekauai.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776085/130776085.html#nucleo+celular+definicion+corta
    • http://dateborn.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488850/totavaguwefa.pdf
    • http://grmuseum.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874126/sowemebokuleb-gepugabubex-rakimowudi.pdf
    • http://bellissimolady.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270887/2996.pdf
    • http://chaicultureyql.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621374/46d433a.pdf
    • http://paddleboardrentalspenticton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739250/0a0ad46.pdf
    • http://humblebundleofjoy.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622120/6369201.pdf
    • http://wmmo.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323424/tisajewesu.pdf
    • http://bluebirdassetrecovery.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288455/dajepotulisamal.pdf
    • http://quinnsfriends.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588560/zetom.pdf
    • http://ajconsultinggroupllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/372838.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/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000637c.bin
53809bfcdc76b892da2aa8a9dc2ad041619320e7d9611c54b32c88cff3330379
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x637C 7616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fa8.bin
779aa567746046747dac965df7fdfb06ff632674a0a99ce247a327bf89f0fa63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FA8 16036 bytes