Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 293f63d9996a11f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-06-12 19:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6079d897bf285eb86d21714ff027eca SHA-1: f8e5b8ef11a4a025051b451fe77da24f10ccbf53 SHA-256: 293f63d9996a11f5ffe5964bec9a06c0f446cca2a16fdda0218ca4f861d26ff2
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing a significant number of external URLs pointing to other PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a large number of links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine a specific user-facing lure.

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://conference.tmd55.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164125/131164125.html#%25D1%2581%25D1%2585%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0+%25D0%25B1%25D0%25BB%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B0+%25D1%2583%25D0%25BF%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%258F+%25D1%2581%25D1%2582%25D0%25B8%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BB%25D1%258C%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B9+%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0
    • http://74-123-78-175.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539128/9588956.pdf
    • http://74-123-78-15.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437770/3122293.pdf
    • http://mta-sts.mx.homefreeanimalrescue.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551472/xilot.pdf
    • http://pointdumepta.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856009/wobadobati.pdf
    • http://creaencantos.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398366/3f19c619361cc5.pdf
    • http://awhholdingsltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775936/repog_rozutuguna.pdf
    • http://browardhealths.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739457/7840652.pdf
    • http://chinhuan.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411197/9166303.pdf
    • https://buwivimew.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/19238189981.pdf
    • https://rifilaru.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/54981443607.pdf
    • https://jilatuwim.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/12029071154.pdf
    • https://vumunavu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/52303178869.pdf
    • https://sapofavef.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/76620586128.pdf
    • https://fodasudo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/61880352153.pdf
    • https://gabotisiv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/77361418670.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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065ad.bin
b8fd6d21486fb714410fe95a69337737da912426b67851f42ddb93cb230d103b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65AD 13248 bytes