Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f40e9d36ee2ca12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-05-16 00:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c41771a18f872b11601d40d4fba160d7 SHA-1: 4e3f91cf32392f5ccd0a27e76586fc848318bbc5 SHA-256: 4f40e9d36ee2ca12781a7ef24f3079c8c96aebfe4e1287ef12c1716b7718ceb1
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are numerically or generically named, suggesting a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, indicates a lure related to a 'Kia cerato 2011 workshop manual', which is likely a pretext to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious URLs. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • 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
  • 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://talentcatch.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130545698/130545698.html#kia+cerato+2011+workshop+manual
    • http://mvpinnovations.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543212/libesixusoli.pdf
    • http://rightjoin.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313286/gavefaw_bibevoma_lozemakedixoju_wijoru.pdf
    • http://theposhpet.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550748/marudato.pdf
    • http://yflaw.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379391/4818621.pdf
    • http://baracom.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130477131/7ee08350cfcb73.pdf
    • http://loveblanketproject.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323214/4177421.pdf
    • http://mylocalpayroll.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775619/bulasesipa_besoralisap.pdf
    • http://representacoespicinin.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489131/dozuponeg.pdf
    • http://tecfrico.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604392/veripawevulaluwabav.pdf
    • http://overiceapparel.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539270/lerufibasemik.pdf
    • http://sostresol.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270873/xitebovotusevebivoni.pdf
    • http://mimca-whistler.shop/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550948/948487.pdf
    • http://servizigroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130477192/3c6b09173eda0.pdf
    • http://sunchinecleaningsvcs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813306/9ff9d0ccc823cb5.pdf
    • http://ryanmoore3d.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437941/1435305.pdf
    • http://legendarymainstreamevents.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603761/9318253.pdf
    • http://danielthurmer.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070442/gezewar.pdf
    • http://prepstrong.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541662/4b7f9846fba784e.pdf
    • http://thoroughbredequineservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483469/6493416.pdf
    • http://landscapedesignswesthartford.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856590/2372262.pdf
    • http://toninorestaurant.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607164/c4643310bc.pdf
    • http://bitesizeworkouts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380992/vojad.pdf
    • http://jolantapilinkaite.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969953/9a503d1534353.pdf
    • http://mchdehs.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380251/sokimen.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_off0000692f.bin
26670427bb8895a583bbdc5dc5b2e10faa8d03a98879de3fc2f09e5e71530080
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692F 9968 bytes