Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f01687a480ce3f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-06-16 13:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-10
MD5: 984e461e66f383aaa90f9828c65c3f32 SHA-1: c6eb7a8f00dd90b8d07a90465c71e9ebe88c8051 SHA-256: 3f01687a480ce3f86b7e5f0006eb214f45e1a536ad265287ba5a30c3c958aeec
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially lure users into downloading malicious content. The document body text, while partially corrupted, includes phrases like 'pdf free download software for windows xp', reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://prayassociates.gift/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/131871721.html#pdf+free+download+software+for+windows+xp PDF link annotation
    • http://weeblyreview.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636969/xigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101ic.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551186/kodoritetafebojulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectlightfilmfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379118/61f9f65c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mta-sts.davidmichaeldesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379874/7112120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thisoklahome.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130491599/495807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxfivepodcast.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435738/bd87c18d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besthandymanbrooklyn.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969199/6479332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaching-philosophy-be-amazing.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289226/talatusovavime_mavegit_jilija_rixokubanubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostmaster.digitalmultimeter.ch/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969158/kibezikawizafusixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mta-sts.mail.nicamap.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776370/woxetojogupoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5809 10088 bytes
SHA-256: bff899e10f9263a51e3b0b83fa02c4585571c89a11228895e04db86a19f260d3
font_01_sfnt_off00007ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE0 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449