Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70ed4aad982e7988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-04-25 05:26:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 921990b3a8d4938f54073d8b504a4ce8 SHA-1: f6a3d1baf271eb4652d595d43819d7e1a481f130 SHA-256: 70ed4aad982e798835650c6fb4b2716e6e9b268a18b7de41d88358098414dfed
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous external links, many of which point to other PDF files with numeric slugs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One embedded URL, 'http://xpertitconsultingllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603946/130603946.html#jsc+full+marksheet+2018+rajshahi+board', is particularly suspicious and aligns with the 'MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure' heuristic. This indicates the document is likely part of a phishing campaign designed to steal credentials or session tokens.

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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://xpertitconsultingllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603946/130603946.html#jsc+full+marksheet+2018+rajshahi+board
    • http://stoneedgesharpening.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775411/turujinek_berepogegevir_jamax.pdf
    • http://valleyexpresslimo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406562/gikovuke_xuwevigaropefit.pdf
    • http://southcoastconstructioninc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639678/witivogobozud.pdf
    • http://lonerocknigerians.ca/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312952/sarevolikeveroboket.pdf
    • http://mycbd4life.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813144/dea179256e5.pdf
    • http://kindredthreadstx.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621985/rumokesovudobivinos.pdf
    • http://blandonexporters.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270826/gokegudoduna.pdf
    • http://kaileecristinafilm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/luwovuzojusa.pdf
    • http://vivians94.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379172/98957007b.pdf
    • http://brianthegaul.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379138/934950.pdf
    • http://eboardresults
    • 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_off0000697b.bin
66e5dd229351c19482cc3ca1e9a51cf8e4ef8752f81ee2c69d78cfc3e9d6cc36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x697B 7992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008899.bin
d907c570f1f8f2d62f38d7529dbf77de46ca3a1917ec53aca7a78bae59874b04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8899 2616 bytes