Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7a651f42275b61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-03-08 04:23:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: d58589301ed7cd4aa12ba07aed06648c SHA-1: 49b493ec77e7df89eede4b9cde7a5dfb8e8ffba2 SHA-256: 5e7a651f42275b61d5eca26a60e87aab35cf816de1f45abe4fdcedebb95e353d
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic, where the goal is to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://palladiumhotel.devsite-1.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483322/130483322.html#navodaya+vidyalaya+apply+online+form+2018
    • http://totaalfitamsterdam.nl/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589099/2bda6c535.pdf
    • http://internationalpickers.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814014/6647765.pdf
    • http://cuscuzetapioca.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551505/49c3a8e322.pdf
    • http://cpanel.patrickmartinmagic.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604728/ebaec484c1e7123.pdf
    • http://acdangheating.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813730/61ed13887aed13.pdf
    • http://yp4s.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814186/f3e50a4.pdf
    • http://epr.energy/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605228/11677cae3366ee.pdf
    • http://eikumpel.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639982/zulevos.pdf
    • http://myteamnavigate.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639563/teliwewesujukog.pdf
    • http://killthecat.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604004/vufopogubiwinev.pdf
    • http://uniqueexpressionsart.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288410/1961401.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/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075f7.bin
6cddc64a8473b588d9f2d0b88d01666edbfeed6b31ba2bb0ae21cd28cf29e501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F7 8740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000974f.bin
d39f47d72801f62ea886d4905662158ae57f540f744bc1e0a33248b27784f5e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x974F 16288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aced.bin
20083990876a3a7623518e6cb5bb460d42cb5f0c929190f5e1c893ad7ae9451f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACED 6812 bytes