Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60454a51aafccd3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-04-02 13:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: ecd9693c29fb7db8dee2cdf8a343ba46 SHA-1: b898c498bb00948156c37296e9b0ba37149f0c00 SHA-256: 60454a51aafccd3eee9c3768c15a415245e41c25a9b8914c7bfc57f7e2ce2d8c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm or SEO spam, containing a large number of external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute potentially harmful content through these linked PDFs. The document body itself contains garbled text and what appears to be metadata, along with one of the URLs.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://guadaluperegionalwellnesscenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539419/130539419.html#poesia+al+dia+de+la+independencia+del+peru+para+ni%C3%B1os
    • http://skincarerewards.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814715/7436035.pdf
    • http://cnblife.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588733/pivan-samoxevebijanug-darepala-voxona.pdf
    • http://sigillab.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550827/remapud.pdf
    • http://lovejoypeacellc.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070597/e0ae107a4.pdf
    • http://k12districtsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775808/lolawonos.pdf
    • http://melissachartier.info/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969459/68aaa1fef1f28.pdf
    • http://gocolawars.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775542/11aab23793c0cb.pdf
    • http://wordzthatspeaklife.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738679/2585740.pdf
    • http://energyjoule.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291507/ripebadizaninume.pdf
    • http://experienceearth.store/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740251/guxipa.pdf
    • http://jrbrewtech.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639891/3169069.pdf
    • http://itsallrv.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589010/raximenuxosiz-pupexejidivex-bisakedemusev.pdf
    • http://signaturebeautybash.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604429/529ecb61a.pdf
    • http://safarlawfirm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814715/9276709.pdf
    • http://personalizedengravedcuttingboards.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164266/0b53dd50efc57b.pdf
    • http://arlingtoncarpetcleaner.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130493476/6595777.pdf
    • http://22ninthstreetu707.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639634/powow.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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000772f.bin
92c60271ae1c671cdf2df9b64a36d407eceefe4d50d41fe1e2487666b60557b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772F 9380 bytes