Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f8746164bbb36be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-04-02 13:01:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: ec9f7bfef2159964698eaa54766cb1ea SHA-1: 028b74335a4d4e16e34fdacd20279dba96d28d50 SHA-256: 6f8746164bbb36bef9ed3fbc323b73669ade9bd674ecbee69b7d6f1151a76df4
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. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, but given the malicious verdict, it is more likely used to distribute further malicious content or to evade detection. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

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://adventuredanang.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590403/130590403.html#passmark+performance+test+9+serial
    • http://xuemeirhodin.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/gebibu.pdf
    • http://rhinobullybook.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323097/8440008.pdf
    • http://clickngo.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620985/davijigalazuku-tedajekumuneluk-jiguwivimob.pdf
    • http://madeinoklahomafest.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/jaloretufudu-gunibenitogo.pdf
    • http://thecarvingartistshoppe.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620672/798e4191.pdf
    • http://angelas24.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070843/rupiwepa.pdf
    • http://notyetshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483808/e7d683fd5.pdf
    • http://proskillconsultancy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379525/7187791.pdf
    • http://visagespabaac.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640139/luwexigeredebep.pdf
    • http://patosgatos.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621531/kebenukixume-bivewotoxezawa.pdf
    • http://livingyourlegacy.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381003/sixikosujumopirop.pdf
    • http://ktectrading.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621503/nixadolonozuriwogedo.pdf
    • http://jetcraze.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814575/9c1212aeb.pdf
    • http://keenanforever.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437615/zujexotijasetefi.pdf
    • http://michellesellsidhomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/zurarenopikigiborad.pdf
    • http://shelliejacobs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815097/ziged.pdf
    • http://myfiberworksllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071038/7653504.pdf
    • http://netflixcenterhelpid812.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813135/nevawofelo-zadidojisaz-jevon.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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000076f8.bin
1dcc92a1dd24223670cdad7eb0eee51046cf3c10e2dac78aad1f6b642b92e3ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F8 8652 bytes