Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7402b79a55d951e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.4 KB Created: 2018-06-11 09:58:32 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: c95e0f9cf2a18c21a63ff706a9b5c7ee SHA-1: 136a90c96a088019ff0bac5e89edcf8afe442fd5 SHA-256: 7402b79a55d951e4ccb7d2cd383b06ec3bfc17a299d0a5df172a053d6b850f8b
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document is classified as malicious due to its SEO poisoning technique, which tricks users into downloading a fake file. The document contains multiple links to external URLs, including http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=wangsness-electromagnetic-answers-to-problems.pdf, which is identified as a gateway for malicious downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9664

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=wangsness-electromagnetic-answers-to-problems.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=wangsness-electromagnetic-answers-to-problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wellness-concepts-applications-test-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/spectroscopic-methods-in-bioinorganic-chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/what-would-google-do-jeff-jarvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/unit-circle-c-kuta-software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/who-fought-in-the-crusades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/standard-costing-questions-and-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/visions-of-earth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/shopmanu-txt-notepad-shop-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/your-love-is-murder-or-the-case-of-the-mangled-pie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/signing-naturally-unit-4-mini-dialogue-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000031bd.bin
a1db2837271ba7190ef911016201d91bcd12c0bd9ec45fdd75aa7a5ae4c4c455
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31BD 10164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005202.bin
bde350b834797d2474db5cfca0e6045187337b29be9fb2339cfb016db56f1f95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5202 7220 bytes