Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15c1af2bea6c7615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.2 KB Created: 2018-06-11 09:59:59 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 317fc16ed97f1737c2ffbac8a9c1cc4b SHA-1: 0a31bdc63eedda94de453e32c27d4106d714c015 SHA-256: 15c1af2bea6c761534540cb7bc3ab05e8d63842a26d7d37b94b5acd4e36e086e
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs and a heuristic firing for 'PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD' indicates it is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body also contains references to these URLs, reinforcing the lure. The primary malicious URLs are associated with 'uncpbisdegree.com', suggesting a download gateway for malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9677

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=tesccc-applications-of-trigonometry.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=tesccc-applications-of-trigonometry.pdf
    • http://www.mozoolab.net/e/e_study_guide_for_dental_radiography_by_joen_iannucci_isbn_9780721615752.pdf
    • http://www.recursosticmestre.com/n/o/names-of-the-dead-an-elegy-for-the-victims-of-september-11.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/sony-sca-s30-speakers-owners-manual.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wade-organic-chemistry-6th-edition-test-bank.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/signal-processing-lab-15-solutions-manual.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/skyscan-atomic-clock-manual-model-31269.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/volvocars-navi-rti-manual.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-escort-lucky-luke-vol-18.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/white-christmas-with-a-wobbly-knee-the-belchester-chronicles-book-2.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/unix-the-ultimate-guide-3rd-edition.pdf
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-autonomous-linear-quadratic-control-problem-theory-and-numerical-solution-1st-edition.pdf
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/unit-09-lesson-01-exponential-functions-answers.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617350
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000036b3.bin
a3217b716b9a7fe8f78b5a16eb2379f0e896d8151da243c670554482e4be31fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x36B3 10992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005939.bin
bbb1cafaea8c5ca11ee4f17a22da4a92c2167d946dd43bb20771119f7ee7ad3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5939 7000 bytes