Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c089cb65d8ca75a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.9 KB Created: 2020-05-31 10:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 16318127befdaccf1eb9a2dcfbcd5f89 SHA-1: e55e90552f2dda40d5368d8e37a33fc322c36552 SHA-256: 4c089cb65d8ca75a7d6fc167ae85ac35ec9945a176bc6cac23126219373ac9a0
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam operation, potentially used to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine rankings. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://mta-sts.mail.quillskywritings.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604806/130604806.html#lead+sheet+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://margowalsh.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546237/0b9f52c7689bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvindm.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604018/bimamatimulozazezudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divinesking.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871727/42c16b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwinsonthgo.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636774/wepix_fepibexubadat_kulilolifaj_jepabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucaseportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814729/bokirivagetexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldworldremedies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406681/muwebutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidemyjunglecitybrain.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/fusujufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zomuninelix.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/74477705365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zunuxav.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/63245980094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukitivusapu.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/fewumi.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000052db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52DB 9928 bytes
SHA-256: adbe63ae57d4b5cfdd152c244bef62f95fa39c7ebeed17f1b676c0d4c9fe341a