Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68f57fe9eaf2ad81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-03-25 03:10:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 2f52ae34faa7c7b7b4da0c16b7ce8f59 SHA-1: f87547e961b54508a0f708ffd7cd67302dd35a50 SHA-256: 68f57fe9eaf2ad81a3ce54ae4d3bdc82e2bec6ba89da9bc84013e7cbf532783d
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, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting the primary purpose is to direct users to a network of sites, likely for SEO spam or to host further malicious content.

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://royalsoftballacademy.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130475923/130475923.html#actividades+sobre+decenas+centenas+y+unidades
    • http://universalsoul.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588452/5388819.pdf
    • http://mommaleahsgoods.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551708/400336e9b.pdf
    • http://www.dovecote-missions.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271152/napamizumuwe_sebisitadodo.pdf
    • http://www.mondokdentalimplantsmexico.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488322/wojepasa.pdf
    • http://monstacartoons.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543148/mugatafokafogu_xobaviwofa.pdf
    • http://mail.tennisclub-tiergarten.de/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588934/0e04fae38.pdf
    • http://laganbuildingsolutions.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813510/d5d7f06.pdf
    • http://www.kukrecruiting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738962/4b5c7.pdf
    • http://we99ers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814715/5186250.pdf
    • http://lovelabridal.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604580/f2055acf02.pdf
    • http://designmeister.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775388/a02df20d922b43b.pdf
    • http://desatascosbarcelona.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130538891/4598883.pdf
    • http://energysurveysinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163858/gudisakama.pdf
    • http://uitests.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272616/moduzuli.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_off00006d1f.bin
2263a148af6d97c65a31b080d76bc3799a4f6b0fe9c6acabdbef480b49e88a00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D1F 8896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008da9.bin
e2f1373bf3d70a40ff4276a486f0a1d2d32154e4f45ad1243a44c3d3b7d91cea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DA9 2652 bytes