Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70faaea3e2150001…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-04-05 08:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: fd95ef0c6a3592eea17c25e3f68bcc07 SHA-1: 1fd1d399fa717d532a38e475c14cb7833be4e129 SHA-256: 70faaea3e215000145956d1499edf9515d1e235832f75c7e9783328f64e54245
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a 'link farm' heuristic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, possibly for SEO spam or to host further malicious content.

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://allstarscreenprint.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291838/130291838.html#100+nanomolar+to+millimolar
    • http://zanzibarhope.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379841/8814351.pdf
    • http://anesia.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604632/19df70d0c8.pdf
    • http://chirecjmun2019.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739614/4651953.pdf
    • http://lorarivera.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588850/joxisojudolo.pdf
    • http://burlingamenailstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/dumixitobel.pdf
    • http://flinthammer.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382232/7502621.pdf
    • http://subtlesurprise.ca/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589072/wumewojunumalis_xarafiposasapi.pdf
    • http://wldconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874030/1481259.pdf
    • http://modehealthandfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272387/neletel.pdf
    • http://heybkln.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813269/8991946.pdf
    • http://wptwwc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539341/fobagubelufef_pokuworetofivi_nowalena.pdf
    • http://bmcproperties.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874358/fujivofeka.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_off000076a3.bin
baf75e1fee5b5b949f8092f564c8846fe8af0748bda018acd4c8fb26364405de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A3 9192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000099cf.bin
8d553ccbc9c4939c5a8898a0b77d3dde1e2d52d3bb24e9c2fac2d9e498a41ab0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99CF 3408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a563.bin
fe1987dbbf51069f1c0594b634fd7317b30e62354eba990938c2cbd113c19688
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA563 16124 bytes