Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ba8956842d65bfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-06-02 18:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dbb4c218c3d6be843fb82e993844101d SHA-1: fc68b2eb05ea37e1399318adb61400595ff8e9c7 SHA-256: 6ba8956842d65bfcf353361d852ee9748db0604551480310612773a8092a17d8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to various PDF files hosted on different domains, suggesting a link farm or content distribution tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of external links points to a non-standard document purpose, likely malicious.

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://qartcentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453520/131453520.html#telugu+alphabets+pdf
    • http://janetsparks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814345/nufifoxedivur.pdf
    • http://hrcville.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272575/rexabaketorixud.pdf
    • http://zacharyalpern.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588989/videle.pdf
    • http://tidalcreations.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621840/4974a08b71acbc6.pdf
    • http://pcs1.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437299/4f707c8c3115.pdf
    • http://kellyschwegelconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540897/4ccdc9662691a4.pdf
    • http://huoban.heathermcclarriephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874017/114165.pdf
    • http://webmail.whiterivercoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436207/f9b5d3d7f941789.pdf
    • http://qartcentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453520/terms.html
    • http://qartcentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453520/dmca.html
    • http://qartcentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453520/policy.html
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohit
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://mowugowewuv.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/23362526544.pdf
    • https://devuvoguwe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/4289935125.pdf
    • https://jeronakuweni.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/85800617012.pdf
    • https://zopowozofoje.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/letuloti.pdf
    • https://panupobeguki443392900.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/9257234544.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c98.bin
0e39ef667860697092cd23a6a9fc8c0c1ac7cfec6a81fe6fa6b76f1c69c6238b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C98 3432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000696d.bin
f88d2347406fb78f7047ccc5ca0e9a2a7f7656202fd11cf975f3d896ceab6597
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696D 10952 bytes