Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 693cfbe942e193be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-03-26 09:11:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 4380075f9c0ae52e713133e08176a76c SHA-1: 47e5e70ab3a5ffb0a18e845510eeeebdaaf02b1d SHA-256: 693cfbe942e193be74e03506b0513939a6f24ce2850594786b07eac8d760ae25
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on different domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attack, designed to drive traffic to malicious or low-reputation sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to distributing further payloads or engaging in click fraud. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the malicious nature of the document.

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://unicoiwinetrail.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620475/130620475.html#enlace+covalente+definicion+medica
    • http://get-out-canada.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/radimidona.pdf
    • http://qtsatelier.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639978/pakuzun.pdf
    • http://valleystorageandbins.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287221/2588047.pdf
    • http://digital-aun.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379431/7886b4a6546f.pdf
    • http://diyouth.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551142/limivabafuxes.pdf
    • http://outdoorseconds.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776032/82d16c8b9241.pdf
    • http://cfquinnhall.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288326/feniwikesim.pdf
    • http://myhaydenisland.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739069/ruwos.pdf
    • http://benwatfordphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605355/pexasuz.pdf
    • http://www.theseconddeadlysin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740189/3778065.pdf
    • http://schoolnutritionmenu.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814280/pajopopevufur-juvuwinako-davulunufufar.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
    • 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_off00008135.bin
ca0846f1396af49044ac8e694cfec0cf7fd35654b01bb76aa0a1ef9c95f77d7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8135 9552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a324.bin
766110d052f759a6119da585a121fee87f7a7a56b0ee10d99c906a536f2cabe0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA324 2796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad0e.bin
779aa567746046747dac965df7fdfb06ff632674a0a99ce247a327bf89f0fa63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD0E 16036 bytes