Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e1fb460fe16757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2018-06-11 09:08:41 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: e1b2c00b3eeb5f8677be447c64d6ac5a SHA-1: fe1b98fae26d9d92721d55f8a84543edca555b15 SHA-256: 53e1fb460fe167572ccdc3c5d933d834f02d380b88726d9d27dcfa1d1b69e6bc
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to download locations for a grammar guide, suggesting a lure to download a malicious file. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. The document body, though truncated, contains references to download URLs and appears to be a crafted lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6302

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=wren-and-martin-english-grammer-answers-guide.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=wren-and-martin-english-grammer-answers-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wixbox.de/wren/and/wren_and_martin_english_grammer_answers_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m0in.com/wren-and-martin-english-grammer-answers-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beforejobs.com/2016/11/wren-martin-grammar-solutions.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beforejobs.com/search/label/EnglishIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wegoplace.com/reads-online/wren-and-martin-english-grammer-answers-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpfund.de/wren/and/wren_and_martin_english_grammer_answers_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andinojewellery.co/books/893777/wren_and_martin_english_grammar_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungkh.de/wren/and/wren_and_martin_english_grammer_answers_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canrei.de/wren/and/wren_and_martin_english_grammar_answer_key_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drabbi.de/wren/and/wren_and_martin_english_grammer_answers_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchwebtv.com/file/wren-and-martin-english-grammer-answers-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/toro-gts5-600-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/ufeministi-na-uhakiki-wa-fasihi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/tales-of-a-fourth-grade-nothing-ela-core-plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/sunflower-pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-13-english-study-book-for-the-common-entrance-exams-with-online-edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-tender-years-prairie-legacy-book-1-volume-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/tmh-general-studies-manual-paper-1-2013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/spelling-list-for-2nd-wonders.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-home-corner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-shipwreck-the-story-of-paul-rescue-at-sea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andinojewellery.co/books/893777/wren_and_martin_englishIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quora.com/Is-Wren-and-Martin-good-for-learning-grammarIn PDF document text
    • https://156000343.r.bat.bing.com/?ld=d3-OXG5230tj0PmAFpX3t-EjVUCUywOBRGUtnJjxJh79nusKYPvaKWpxeAvmg2YvKm0-324y0SD-59L07jr-GSuHaEwCEWTjeTrL_11tzwbPZCqGzNt_4P8sQ1qnTyGLlrSOtt3_fN7QI1luVnWWU_rxicKZvG75FU-2kKiGaAZpNSIQCH&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fs%2f%3fie%3dUTF8%26keywords%3dwren%2bmartin%2benglish%2bgrammar%26tag%3dmh0b-20%26index%3daps%26hvadid%3d77653067520558%26hvqmt%3db%26hvbmt%3dbb%26hvdev%3dc%26ref%3dpd_sl_7xsenkbd4f_bIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617350In 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_off00008213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8213 14764 bytes
SHA-256: 89ead4ed335819afc766adb97a451c92927c29b8eb8180489797242643fe5e5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000af25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF25 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 2ebc00a2bff368207326a087026ce7adf03da867e8e889d5c408ee7983ee2d7b