Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 546647e5899d9d38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-03-29 10:09:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 2340a4df5907c7bed825d5673045e88b SHA-1: 8cf124d1ed26d83345c32431edf1ef395cdaa6ee SHA-256: 546647e5899d9d38237efb8a689fa08eb17873cf051e1bc87cf0677d585725ec
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a mix of metadata and what appears to be a link farm, further supporting the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://moodlabnewlife.nl/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738526/130738526.html#diferencia+entre+educacion+y+pedagogia+wikipedia
    • http://alexdanielski.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604740/a6d6acce969ab.pdf
    • http://www.westshoreland.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813785/2c4ff02ba.pdf
    • http://je-advisory.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539130/bamenagajesaw.pdf
    • http://pantherlakenc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604218/toruxatakepigutuvi.pdf
    • http://treeverwood.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379143/dalakudadis-sumobagefewise-toxevasolejanud-ridegaxitiduw.pdf
    • http://jpm3i.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776340/zunofor-nexidosobin.pdf
    • http://solarpowermidatlantic.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813780/jotejemetijezoga.pdf
    • http://microcomponent.no/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738979/8f23b77.pdf
    • http://tawindowtreatments.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070567/7003858.pdf
    • http://pinupanddance.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551765/ca896002b18d7.pdf
    • http://fsnederland.nl/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488583/visekevoj.pdf
    • http://www.rlx.space/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550657/rujikudolu.pdf
    • http://pamperpartybundaberg.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621310/41279f.pdf
    • http://www.gaycollegeweekend2012.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620410/5356923.pdf
    • http://piropeandopueblo.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313190/sixirotuviruzub_bumomikilatepik_jasedojerate.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007645.bin
32f6ff15651082e7366e092817eb3979ac45e06216302959edef3c108524a75c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7645 8624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000095c9.bin
f31c439e28d0137206b91a151f21343900f846ed9ff070250fbe82eb1cc7da1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95C9 16204 bytes