Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e48031d6112e0ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-06-02 10:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d3844d1b63913aa881c60f4e1db8e7f SHA-1: 379ef8c8e425d55d05835e511f49c122fddfb7a1 SHA-256: 0e48031d6112e0ef0709f63528682021694b2c74b92b9fe65982489801614478
96 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, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a malicious intent to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of outbound links points to a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://changedthrutheword.gammaxiques.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738541/130738541.html#canon+powershot+d10
    • http://74-123-73-21.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639268/7432875.pdf
    • http://socialtradingschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604024/1534746.pdf
    • http://prospechomeinspect.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454215/ketudego-bajegajiw-sewomuf.pdf
    • http://fousdepatrimoine.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164572/katatow.pdf
    • http://tkperformancehorses.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/3900885.pdf
    • http://graffitivoices.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164437/1338735.pdf
    • http://depressedinthenw.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606755/867a1a336.pdf
    • http://webmail.mr-monticello.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379518/tejazubavasatuzuguke.pdf
    • http://changedthrutheword.gammaxiques.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738541/terms.html
    • http://changedthrutheword.gammaxiques.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738541/dmca.html
    • http://changedthrutheword.gammaxiques.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738541/policy.html
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://nomutodiri.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/janojitebifunejako.pdf
    • https://bunagenopofo.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1024937182.pdf
    • https://buwivimew.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/fokorukeviwulerogarugurut.pdf
    • https://lotopakaxil.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/43447623647.pdf
    • https://zokivofi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/7473350350.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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000771e.bin
7e05091e90ed8c4a145ff407955c42a0bd3f90ad6eba5664ce3de5698f9041e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771E 10536 bytes