Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e8eb7ef861f8c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-06-21 02:53:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 67c91a158c95663606a4f6c2c06b6e5d SHA-1: df61458bc309a74eab7e9e8093d087be7ed8213e SHA-256: 6e8eb7ef861f8c7f4d4506063395995c76db49a16b44d6e00a136d2fac211988
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDFs hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous algorithmically generated URLs points towards a campaign designed to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure implies a lure to download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://virtualbas.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621390/130621390.html#computer+integrated+manufacturing+3rd+edition+pdf
    • http://eliteliving.shop/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636763/fidogaxifutoxupipig.pdf
    • http://fungfound.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604359/lemuf.pdf
    • http://pastorgregj.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621331/0f6206cede2330.pdf
    • http://solsticeastrology.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682647/20fae4.pdf
    • http://ideparishchurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874352/nunuz.pdf
    • http://willowhillwelshtx.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588518/xutaverefekelomawejo.pdf
    • http://equi-presence.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435772/1465830.pdf
    • http://thriftstorehemet.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856772/4308687.pdf
    • http://creativeconcreterentalandsupply.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070010/2856792.pdf
    • http://ingeborgmohr.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476270/savatusodifeluxufud.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://hostmaster.castlegroup.uk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482884/3498158.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_off00004e83.bin
24cd4eec8cf6561a5fe49a5c6de038ba6a869317e3a9470e47e993c29d48d0ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E83 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006097.bin
18e22ee1fbef02898738fad12f781aabf7367894787ee367f193fd66ae2d2247
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6097 9308 bytes