Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f178b61dc58a8db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-04-29 16:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 9dd9c8d1212ad7279dc4b196cedfefb7 SHA-1: 77b955ccdd5382351cd6acd7a35ef98c69d8fa23 SHA-256: 7f178b61dc58a8dba23b4ac29cb50fe57c77cac1949c566785f66739eaf522a2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to other PDF documents hosted on various domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of algorithmically generated URLs suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious payloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and numerous external links point towards a malicious distribution or SEO poisoning campaign.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://dpmasociadas.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379231/130379231.html#osrs+guide+to+dragon+defender
    • http://harborclubwest1404.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437567/dumafewotolib-lejanixez-relopawanaxomot.pdf
    • http://bettyswaner.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739120/4376309.pdf
    • http://dogoodeveryday.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539697/gukemibufanuwanixed.pdf
    • http://percussify.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483385/731870d9d8.pdf
    • http://captiveinsuranceinvestmentservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739827/5452299.pdf
    • http://bellaspeechsensoryworldinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639283/2043922.pdf
    • http://sportingservicesdressage.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605325/jufedajil.pdf
    • http://spot2020.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476215/jamexopo-rorixij-pekisopunadut.pdf
    • http://schoolmountainproperties.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438294/e6b0b9.pdf
    • http://jjbennett.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873921/f74a1d28dc52cb.pdf
    • http://knowlio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454522/e4a69b8281.pdf
    • http://usinternationaljapanandkoreanworldunion.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605258/3c5e814c120.pdf
    • http://sovereignanalytics.net/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272877/wesazelezi.pdf
    • http://bereanabf.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603702/e5bceae8fb.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_off0000667a.bin
0834643af876b7e5091188d0d2bbfcd7e178d7650ac02baf6ff9a66156ed3970
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x667A 8168 bytes