Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53eed8835a900007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-04-22 02:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: b26b127b5fc8ddb0c8f00331683d9fb9 SHA-1: c950abd0596eb6b15eaa869f3ba7fbf50ca35a2c SHA-256: 53eed8835a9000073d0d2b76bc6b3bf7d2337a654840ea7372cdabb2f4acc747
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link/Object: User Execution: Malicious Link T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. The document also explicitly lures the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering technique. The presence of numerous unknown-reputation URLs indicates a potential distribution network for malicious content.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://geelongtreeservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489006/130489006.html#free++manager+portable PDF link annotation
    • http://4leggedwalks.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130273762/lelusiwijiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indigofibershed.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815059/tanatatitexon_fisinemoje_jasuxaroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsolo101.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620455/c8c883d99d51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecontent.app/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620370/6dbad73d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcgfunclub.club/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738914/f7ed915e391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theawesomecornershop.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590026/tuvasadik_wirerisuniweri_dapad_rezalajobuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildtherelationship.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589302/vafetekoguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homemadebabies.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383464/gonizukogureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacwc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379590/0e2669ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinyldecorwithmelanie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775867/a28d14eb4628f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oopsiedaisies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814652/neporok-nubewanetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wafflesmiles.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413222/befizod-lisekikajaxuli-biwulirosozet-gujibako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilettosandshotguns.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550684/rukopomowexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaloveprelovedpregnancybabyandbeyond.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438397/c71c4dc6e.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://www.adobe.com/).NotoIn PDF document text
    • http://www.google.com/get/noto/http://www.adobe.com/type/ThisIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLNotoIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00009ef8.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9EF8 13008 bytes
SHA-256: 2413a3ab5e4e513e6e41563be511a43301cb4cc4100c69a1df41772a8cfa8dd8
font_00_sfnt_off00007f40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F40 8276 bytes
SHA-256: ceb7c247fe80016ffbf90280e20dc5960244140c6323c7ca523052ebce73508a
font_02_sfnt_off0000c82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC82D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: bb7f3a77f7833b39fe6b0cf08265a5ad0460cb4bda91382e6c877c0db3ce514d