Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d11ae5e28e93552…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-05-16 02:11:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11f54b7ea055ab802d0de47ce44a1c4c SHA-1: 0fad0b4ed94970c3cb796474281ab17b0395a06e SHA-256: 2d11ae5e28e935523062dc69d902e43f790e8e4537fcdbb2a8ead2a7a4548060
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Sembulingam physiology book free' and references the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure for search engine optimization or to distribute content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for malicious purposes, likely SEO spam or hosting malicious content.

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://beaverdamchurchonline.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550712/130550712.html#sembulingam+physiology+book+free
    • http://easynailswithdawn.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814310/deves.pdf
    • http://waybeau.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438096/5dbd6.pdf
    • http://rainbowofgreenville.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620370/buveto.pdf
    • http://maxzubatsky.info/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775808/6406fbbe9d.pdf
    • http://wildernesshomeinspection.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483385/sunir.pdf
    • http://iwallpaperexperts.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130538995/5317551.pdf
    • http://healthcarecareercoaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856316/e040f1.pdf
    • http://the-hotel-academy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969353/gifelakubimagos_biwidutono_resibupixebani_gobeladifizi.pdf
    • http://prime-autocare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380299/8003401.pdf
    • http://hudsonhoneyco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/wagegakefogepa.pdf
    • http://back2businessconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163983/vonozaletadiz.pdf
    • http://rachsrm.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272548/1981770.pdf
    • http://baselabstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411474/lagalakomu.pdf
    • http://theatreboreal.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312919/puzoxikexixupe_jatepo.pdf
    • http://susmitapaul.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639607/a54876d0929.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a2a.bin
757160b9203c9009beae6abbd9e284fb270c6268eb3145e83b36d6dd35dd9423
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A2A 10120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd9.bin
4ef9506ee11a349461550e6b437e3786686b598308a87786035880d16624999d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD9 16060 bytes