Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 403af9d4bd3ace17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.4 KB Created: 2018-06-11 09:59:57 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 6c518a7bfc0ae5cf1f292cfaac078522 SHA-1: f269771b863319ff420ea0dde72f39ed2e84182b SHA-256: 403af9d4bd3ace17c30c68558dbc053e804727ab7b393c1b44bbc6ed96348fed
130 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9664

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=the-toplofty-lord-thorpe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=the-toplofty-lord-thorpe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanzirosa.net/rr-biblio-km2.htmIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-economist-best-cities-to-live-2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/silver-antibacterial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/zumdahl-chemistry-9th-edition-solution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-eco-chick-guide-to-life-how-to-be-fabulously-green.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/story-of-panchatantra-righteousness-leads-to-success.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-favorite-uncle-remus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/upload-your-design-business-card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/series-and-parallel-speaker-wiring.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wirind-diagrams-for-steering-columns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-ancient-magus-bride-vol-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3130 10028 bytes
SHA-256: a0f6b4f2a823a022dad63cc26fbcee1b5f4b90bdda6d9ce60f10121c72f26ee8
font_01_sfnt_off00005111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5111 6028 bytes
SHA-256: aec45449aa18e49214809e334c2c9b061fb7e78b206897bbbcbf909a7f313b64