Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e46a50c0d671e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-06-06 17:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: e9a14b630af2d500d0f2ed27e33b9c99 SHA-1: 0b0a86033a24217abee18b0096f6828f128de50c SHA-256: 62e46a50c0d671e8b8ed72bf0f43b2b9b735cbccdd4a8ecbf7c281c7adc07abd
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on unrelated domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes phrases like "Autocad tutorial books free download" and references to the authoring application, which are likely lures to encourage users to click on the embedded links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a large number of external links supports this assessment.

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://vlandconstruct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776058/130776058.html#autocad+tutorial+books+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://globalimmo.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453657/0911f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transition-2.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476760/refamogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmail.ericathibodeaux.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130477633/4173834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodiscover.sfcos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453198/9141798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monicasoni.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813903/5a20e144325c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickkaplan.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289347/10581c72a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlandconstruct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776058/terms.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vlandconstruct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776058/dmca.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vlandconstruct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776058/policy.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://pumogak.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/38313040065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://povodijagez.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/lademefulokiwigozojosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patepiborev.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/puxizuwuwowazafeluruwoku.pdfIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000610d.bin
33d80b5e357abfa3ea91f5eff18928953f8e36d8e9a7aea158c838e8ae756dd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x610D 2116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ad6.bin
289303fbc6cfbdd9b0c766cb5abd5ffa6d2f1e08125e958291dbcf72784f197a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD6 10680 bytes