Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57e66fa41032bd91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-05-13 00:49:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: d82865dd4db0cd3288c9fdd91e427a99 SHA-1: 83521c3299b4302c7271555afca3dca0a23f341b SHA-256: 57e66fa41032bd914c1d64f0288d70b0fc5eeb9c8f5f9a41d4232cefbcd3e452
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1599 Acquire Infrastructure T1599.001 Subdomain Acquisition

The PDF file contains a large number of external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically identifies this behavior, with 30 external links detected. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests an attempt to entice user interaction with these links. The primary attack pattern is to leverage these numerous external links for malicious purposes, such as distributing further malware or engaging in SEO spam.

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.
  • 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://janicebryansrmt.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639852/130639852.html#knowledge+transition+plan+template+excel PDF link annotation
    • http://sherrodinstitute.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070378/7d5d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanddigital.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603835/seriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liverpooldiscofestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639258/48e9a6fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicevaluators-usa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383837/gaputuludafupo_tevixuxiw_pibowixezaf_jujoxugeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparksphilippines.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489075/5184079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomerycountyhumanesocietync.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/gepitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holisticsignature.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288431/jesitimizexixuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domrabotnicabezposrednikov.ru/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272600/wasalowakufepesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elusvoutfitters.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289801/ebbb3bbdff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truexportadot.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407958/6089696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddletots.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437627/2769523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mb-style.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551124/8590945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annageorgiou.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814115/jivigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenoshaforgottenfriends.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287548/jowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcisimulation.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272890/xijawovemebuzijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000618f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x618F 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 0396493143d655f35bb3eadc86fdbcc19191619184034709e4fca8982ef4ac91