Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8025e9277de10b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.2 KB Created: 2020-06-04 02:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2387b2bd05d7320307050dd84b724a99 SHA-1: 3a8a17d1fd2ee73665f837c6696ed05fb0e3620d SHA-256: 8025e9277de10b8ddea6daaa6c599b0929ecd4c1d597e0000c2a4b7128a6101f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files on various domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, suggesting a malicious intent to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the pattern of link farming is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://resilience-ventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/131384605.html#charm+horn+gungeon
    • http://hearttim.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636602/midesi-vasifobogare-wifis-weboruke.pdf
    • http://mentalhealthdays.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604430/powofixow-vaxojisonazabax-litabadifewedom.pdf
    • http://28y.undesirable.us/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270985/gixezemogatidap.pdf
    • http://resilience-ventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/terms.html
    • http://resilience-ventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/dmca.html
    • http://resilience-ventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/policy.html
    • https://suxepisumeb.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nepezinodudujisifowizul.pdf
    • https://nogilofonula.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/regajuxipajuxa.pdf
    • https://xekukox.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/xirugikupub.pdf
    • https://tamitiliredu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fifopazusoromozawej.pdf
    • https://zezupid.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/63870330417.pdf
    • https://mixusobaso.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/11226647440.pdf
    • https://maforebe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/30715066271.pdf
    • https://dokazadi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/25065139991.pdf
    • https://bedifixovid334311393.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/woxakajofupolixaporupofon.pdf
    • https://fipabimedimi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/43299568185.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_off0000509e.bin
1d74fa6283766cdb104c443d7a0b0305cbb6f1ebb706f30c30e06a25b3bd2cbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x509E 9676 bytes