Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a4163160e3c8036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-03-29 11:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 0a0200c5ed4447e1a0a3a82a89b06370 SHA-1: 75e9f38faea0b99d8defcebc33b66f3b91f120d2 SHA-256: 3a4163160e3c8036843bd0f925a4112b9f781a492f9922733f4dea14f36a0efa
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links to domains like dreamrolesconcert.com and nuohotel-zh.devsite-1.com suggests a link farm or redirection infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious delivery mechanism.

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://nuohotel-zh.devsite-1.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383820/131383820.html#flora+dan+fauna+di+bioma+sabana
    • http://dreamrolesconcert.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289278/sisap.pdf
    • http://contadorpublicozoppi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740066/fenogudenibu.pdf
    • http://ethanhedrick.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272071/mowanakurasawebifex.pdf
    • http://ethosbeats.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589386/ritimewo.pdf
    • http://clementsladyrangers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814471/a0373b5ec594.pdf
    • http://wellroundedmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740068/6303fa51a24fd2.pdf
    • http://swingsocalleft.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540461/3987eb034cd1a0.pdf
    • http://riverbecomesocean.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289353/kigimowene.pdf
    • http://reallombardohomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488580/winuf.pdf
    • http://doctorneilsankar.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291592/9479196.pdf
    • http://annackutschke.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639851/lerotumizuvija.pdf
    • http://realfamilycamping.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621625/6963798.pdf
    • http://flyingowlexhibitions.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815192/fosekimon-faxegenejuti.pdf
    • http://jthomrich.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313434/6b07deeb.pdf
    • http://dnrpipelinesaustralia.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639380/vepipope-vujosatir-zumagor-paxot.pdf
    • http://culturalinnovationgroup.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604324/fe1e5a5350f4b.pdf
    • http://ponca.biz/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620515/faloduzidadaxagim.pdf
    • http://djmischievous.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814526/9101305.pdf
    • http://adsl-67-65-143-61.amcirealestate.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407521/4370139.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_off000074ba.bin
29623fed6250a2bd0117dc4791672a32516eedf51c8c6a58746f8236569b3cd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BA 7592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000927e.bin
83459e82cebe561b9e65dda6a09953c9e35f75e5df0fa62a624e1833cc5b8086
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x927E 1708 bytes