Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47955d545605a4a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-03-26 14:47:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: f727a85d4d15415ce2dd4b80dfed2094 SHA-1: 3ce8f798c963dce6138c846c2e49674362bd5cc5 SHA-256: 47955d545605a4a50e26fcd926c5b5a7da44a0567db6e3f5ec05959b393bd59b
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO link farms and potentially distributing further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'Fry word assessment checklist', likely a lure to encourage users to click the embedded links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

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://three-ps-in-a-pod.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874439/130874439.html#fry+word+assessment+checklist
    • http://www.heartlandsyork.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739887/8a134f6513806.pdf
    • http://playerpimphustler.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288592/c5a200c26d73d.pdf
    • http://thehammersolutions.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130544703/bewerij.pdf
    • http://terraradarllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969834/7363345.pdf
    • http://madeinmokena.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740056/8724934.pdf
    • http://caribbean-cannabis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776818/nofolatewodusa.pdf
    • http://rezaurrahmanremon.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588501/sivikidojegifafev.pdf
    • http://maid2please.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289339/377dc84.pdf
    • http://yourfurbaby.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323220/natanugupajotevomut.pdf
    • http://mx.galaello.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551386/1b586da.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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007035.bin
f806966fae4563c3036fa5b5dd8096de46ba0346b349ae066b03f0e34c12929d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7035 7988 bytes