Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fe4cb25ee486284…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-04-30 04:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: fdef49640f64c87382defd10c01ed938 SHA-1: ebd7deb0600477df038d105d92cc2a081b6238f8 SHA-256: 1fe4cb25ee4862843ddfd44dbe0767be729a2ecab41963dd024a3bbcb73a1d2c
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to numeric slugs, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded document body text is heavily obfuscated and contains references to URLs, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites.

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://referral360network.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379231/130379231.html#the+categorical+syllogism+logic+exercises+answers
    • http://fundamenton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/wotafujajolexubavede.pdf
    • http://remiemichelleclarke.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435701/c5fa020437b129.pdf
    • http://bluesbreakercottage.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490421/774e5a34f45.pdf
    • http://homeschoolingsource.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969216/kuzuxuju-gamadavovon-gevizew-mipawikuduv.pdf
    • http://atrickortwo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455956/xawibulami.pdf
    • http://firsttimeinkenya.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/097892ac9.pdf
    • http://meganwesterveltfloraldesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/pekofodaxuna-xepokapoxu-zufozizusonelen-dawowasoz.pdf
    • http://customcreationshou.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435722/fb80998c2da.pdf
    • http://teamsellkey.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551880/zoxafufej.pdf
    • http://kanopy.store/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435898/parafamubewisagil.pdf
    • http://daturafashion.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323455/4d322b2c19a42b6.pdf
    • http://yourcreditmanager.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438280/32c690eec456458.pdf
    • http://snakeriversecurity.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380177/jijifiwa-futabilebevunib-xelokaravexofad-xopolelefov.pdf
    • http://biozantium.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452800/9834539.pdf
    • http://dentonstuccocontractor.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590432/sikemebuvevebariwa.pdf
    • http://firsttimeinke
    • 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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006db2.bin
b5e32ededa5e1336ebd4ae456052d11e64e6a306799e6afa603f08cbb5bb94cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DB2 7624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b82.bin
f31c439e28d0137206b91a151f21343900f846ed9ff070250fbe82eb1cc7da1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B82 16204 bytes