Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 670752e71e87a52f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-03-09 01:51:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 29c7f6c1d4b7d90960096b0f6b3cc85a SHA-1: 8dfe6c96eb57ed8f4b7213799c2f360d51fe1490 SHA-256: 670752e71e87a52fc3b49189fabe039bec0ce8fa83fe86c8f4f3dcc83633bdd9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to seemingly unrelated domains and are structured as potential SEO link farms. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a 'secondary survey' and includes URLs that are likely intended to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure with mass external links is a common tactic for distributing malware or leading users to scam pages.

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://host49.carmichaelnl.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603745/130603745.html#secondary+survey+in+atls
    • http://jeremycosmatos.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969448/jidekedakopizejigaba.pdf
    • http://studiosing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/wowometot.pdf
    • http://aulayaiqsimarugut.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324278/tulagojoforemopegivo.pdf
    • http://www.candykingdomfun.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130492689/1761537.pdf
    • http://crankshaftmotorcarclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476912/fezubi_tikajo.pdf
    • http://sanghalive.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739817/xigofegaletaxa-bosonival.pdf
    • http://mindexpansionacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603676/1144306.pdf
    • http://lafresquera.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550929/4cbdfbdd5f.pdf
    • http://e2lectric.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605501/3524174.pdf
    • http://www.mydashbord.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/xorodor.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://ucuhacw.sites.looka.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740000/429d849.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/
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008226.bin
b01aed8d80dde94b7528022322000598af14f41a61168e2d9270b8cf91f94de7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8226 8000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a158.bin
41d5c9cb4d60b7530e3cfd93a78efd430fe179aa57a8296e74fb8a971da4b0ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA158 2600 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa81.bin
19b2152cf5e857c4886c964e3dad1a5f9e7c811eda9519a7355395253e051414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA81 16048 bytes