Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45fa889abd763007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-03-30 16:38:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 1ff33d0fa57f789599db6605f48d2471 SHA-1: 1abb23637e1584aaa539b4283281156445145ba3 SHA-256: 45fa889abd763007c2848ae6ebaeabb004fbf68ff0ad4bb8d9cbcbfac6b0499d
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to attract traffic or distribute malicious content. The document body also contains a direct link to 'jasonbondpumps.com' with a query string indicating a download for 'half life 2 android highly compressed', which is a common lure for malware. The presence of a visual download button further supports the deceptive nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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
  • 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://jasonbondpumps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775103/130775103.html#download+half+life+2+android+highly+compressed PDF link annotation
    • http://stellarminiatureamericanshepherds.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488399/8125468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sflatu.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289458/305794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://settlementbookkeeping.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603982/wokilo_lipozexovijozi_kosez_povezazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refinancecoloradosprings.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272580/df71f23201b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyerrichardson.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291531/e58ea5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kauzowines.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540461/jeposelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokterinhuren.nl/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476039/sirotoxefomozakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santarosalearning.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288775/jiwexoxavadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mooreintconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639526/baduzavalimabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avila-vs-leukemia.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476091/ab7af4fdf3153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonusbaseballtours.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130545043/nufibomirijo_nujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amaterasutaiko.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740340/6649577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesun2018.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589374/3203ef7dafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogamybedandme.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605347/ladevitezatifep-fajedojifalak-jarinofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volantinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775125/kiximuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdlifestylemgmt.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163733/kolejosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jshepherdphotography.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272414/5365586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomashushen.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969237/zusutu.pdfIn 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
🗂 Part of campaign: safemoneyconsulting.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000072bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BD 8756 bytes
SHA-256: 42a74c7b90764249f89c20eee01f930cdb3924516563687362410903810b6220