Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6617e3ceddaf1bc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-03-13 01:58:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: a62db19e063df574df5b6f05d25b0b34 SHA-1: 13afcda6183bb5866ace463064ee38e8974fb28b SHA-256: 6617e3ceddaf1bc0e0bf8b28f53217a612d6e1b433e8ba3b8f0833a9ffbe3058
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links to other PDF files hosted across numerous domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the sheer volume of external links suggests a non-legitimate purpose.

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://cpanel.jacksonvilleartistsguild.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603793/130603793.html#affinity+chromatography+instrumentation+slideshare
    • http://emeraldstarcomics.info/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739032/mesulawopegedep.pdf
    • http://coreofjuno.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588640/4994164.pdf
    • http://snappyz.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604801/7889725.pdf
    • http://rbkresearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071066/6736053.pdf
    • http://www.thelifeiwantgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270823/pewirisomelufoma.pdf
    • http://noahsanchorarmy.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272648/3684792.pdf
    • http://ns2.brisasdesantiago.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130545327/7565128.pdf
    • http://cams-collection.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776006/vorobikodovumu.pdf
    • http://love-in-the-afternoon.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476313/jejilozixosizinon.pdf
    • http://shadowbendtest4.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489523/suxonuveze.pdf
    • http://rotorheadservicesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539652/4434789.pdf
    • http://rcenews.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620449/letekobupafudav.pdf
    • http://losangeles-soul.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814308/7db869c698.pdf
    • http://rumseytownhall.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621844/raxoxin.pdf
    • http://www.homelessinbath.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814843/3464962.pdf
    • http://joy-fully.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271096/zirovaw.pdf
    • 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/
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000adf4.bin
60447dbd86009a8c7f2bf8c691e33ccc40e928fde4f4b2ae588f38efb2e94bbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADF4 9068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce97.bin
4e9ae17c41f053e7ad2cff4c16f4465db96732130fdde230725ded2fe80853ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE97 3156 bytes