Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d457434675d0922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-06-05 22:40:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4df6e731b7ba8280620f5b6839a6f5e SHA-1: f9f65c4ef10ed60746551d9dc03fb1f183df9a2a SHA-256: 7d457434675d09225dc84555be786d52070f0930e244ef3f2819a96bbc8d6b7b
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, a technique often used in SEO link farms. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a mass external link farm. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures or redirects to malicious content, although no specific payload execution was directly observed in this static analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://arcshiftshelf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603935/130603935.html#calor+y+termodinamica+zemansky
    • http://thh7.fakids.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412491/turivepimudomed.pdf
    • http://standbyvacuum.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551262/wazapopo_tomixakosinifa.pdf
    • http://liesbethrood.nl/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543121/gomakowagofovowogip.pdf
    • http://frenchculinaryadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/566150.pdf
    • http://cherrycreekcheer.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873796/bimasaxovidox_zixugofoma_fozaraxipulu_rulutepa.pdf
    • http://20180509.xyz/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621325/fe3bd725.pdf
    • http://mchinsp.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639567/edaa1fee3c.pdf
    • http://74-123-75-230.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288594/d6bdcfcad.pdf
    • http://carolinarodriguezrealestate.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302802/wuwozaramofez.pdf
    • http://jeanettelukens.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/makuxubisovisela.pdf
    • http://g9ldl.dtmgt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405927/14d55fe886b.pdf
    • http://arcshiftshelf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603935/terms.html
    • http://arcshiftshelf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603935/dmca.html
    • http://arcshiftshelf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603935/policy.html
    • https://ruletiw.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xafan.pdf
    • https://zamomewa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/21978093438.pdf
    • https://tofipiboda.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/402890961.pdf
    • https://tezaliloja.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pawolude.pdf
    • https://xewowinupi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vigoxuxeganitananaj.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_off00005768.bin
11225b62ab911055026b04f2a4b306f3f2620ac77fde7c78c23f352fa4d8ee7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5768 11092 bytes