Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61aae80bc6da0fce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-06-18 14:26:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 73ba96e0a3dc7c6f2109c5188e0a42b5 SHA-1: c643f30f6fc3bf5b02724a44e1f0c2dc8ee38af4 SHA-256: 61aae80bc6da0fce6406e8e5d2f3740a0820399f54533151e21d5a9e74a9e175
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are algorithmically generated and point to other PDF files. This suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, potentially to distribute malware or drive traffic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://mondzorgdemarne.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775540/130775540.html#mac+time+capsule+manual
    • http://hostmaster.beautifulrooms.london/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383480/9371674.pdf
    • http://googletaxicabs.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622032/274c07052087.pdf
    • http://261.undesirable.us/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483052/nawofopisova_lupowusebikudib_retetu_rafabuvisevapak.pdf
    • http://watercalm.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437233/37de747a4f.pdf
    • http://mta155.qualitynow.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488832/vezidategukiti-nazagoro-tevulozitu-mapirizuwunen.pdf
    • http://dudetree.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740492/2708003.pdf
    • http://bigcitygraphics.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739987/123cfdb216b93.pdf
    • http://admin.hwupenyuproject.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639784/paxapuselipegi.pdf
    • http://iamkennywilson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380598/ruwixoxasanul.pdf
    • http://excellent-fullyloaded.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383761/0bc18f.pdf
    • http://connectedcommunicationsconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483963/naxukisugufebaj.pdf
    • http://www.typoland.com/http://www.typoland.com/designers/Lukasz_Dziedzic/Copyright
    • http://www.typoland.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006558.bin
de6aacb5a55f55b98bf3ae384f96a51051c900e5a59c241f5198d539ce1a3af5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6558 6168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074f8.bin
64a6601cee433a2ec64d7c7dc34f8cc86430d72a2d931ed7088ec1fad519b458
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74F8 4760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000850f.bin
d90ac8df87c2d61e75668498f6a8e03cb98ead9a9770059706dea8d9b261c02e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x850F 10320 bytes