Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ef442aa857f2ab3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.6 KB Created: 2020-06-02 16:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bd83994c57ba21f1d0aefb6881a48c06 SHA-1: f844a9f1cce7e8b1858553b34722669a62598e98 SHA-256: 0ef442aa857f2ab38cf0805964a29915c154499229d061d79b3c5ee22d9a34c0
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and the presence of 27 external links suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the observed link farm pattern. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://millercapital.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271179/130271179.html#libro+de+formacion+civica+y+etica+2+de+secundaria+2016
    • http://79.undesirable.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739087/nigimegeb.pdf
    • http://beeyouhandmade.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874079/1114ccdbcd1.pdf
    • http://endopia.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483219/2104047.pdf
    • http://hostmaster.haguekitchens.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539350/pazeferep_jakaxemi.pdf
    • http://kinginthemountain.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/sototomawagoko.pdf
    • http://vialadventure.accion-capitalhumano.cl/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488574/8427973.pdf
    • http://webmail.cattledogcoffeeroasters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873735/gogazipezafiwa-naxutifizazowu-kofawotafelo.pdf
    • http://dulcettreats.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589431/783e850423481db.pdf
    • http://justifieddisabilityadvocates.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636949/488c3f8f.pdf
    • http://millercapital.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271179/terms.html
    • http://millercapital.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271179/dmca.html
    • http://millercapital.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271179/policy.html
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://vemupuki.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/29997082596.pdf
    • https://nuvekutivuj.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/71292429117.pdf
    • https://tegedow.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/20334537160.pdf
    • https://jivimisag.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/tixoguvunumewipatafa.pdf
    • https://dupalebiv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/55652892469.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_off00018c2a.bin
f4929ae278add7670b8691be11079aa8f8762fce97cb78697dae5a5a5ca146b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C2A 13736 bytes