Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f2d8ed6b995a2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB Created: 2020-03-16 15:26:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 06a528440c6aa48fcd762668eeea1449 SHA-1: 7fa1f5bb79940630e95291a2fa8bee1637b463f5 SHA-256: 78f2d8ed6b995a2cdf45095de6e7cd5e416122e513d66d4cc0115c1e68f54b2b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which are structured as SEO-optimized PDF links. The document body, while appearing to be about a label maker, is likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to these external sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a link farm or SEO scam.

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://v9zhr.slpny.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476318/130476318.html#how+to+use+brother+pt-d600+label+maker PDF link annotation
    • http://www.citrix.mmac.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436054/626815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tutoringbylindajoy.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620356/6654eb7787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iavtn.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621730/2ee59ebb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saintclairstorage.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483576/4852221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deceptivapparel.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539768/05d99aaa79d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degambs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740045/wawowisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molokaishores.info/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814874/5754379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmbreezerealty.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476395/318980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thejerseyoutlet.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588802/vopepug-tokuxe-bijedotejofufu-voxutapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaktreecapllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289430/telewupemivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pinemountainlakehouse.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620937/a007daa7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-81.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590374/posuzivevepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandlineidiot.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379503/xomonasomiwo-ziwulakenuw-mefox-kilati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timerlay.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323996/kupadaloza-xedenija-bejeten-rifiworewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemzcashhomesolutions.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069808/tupusowusijakajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000057d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D3 7096 bytes
SHA-256: 0ea625056ef9a3ca24aab60ec7ffbeabeb3fe11e043973eaf0743b011c96773a