Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80a7bd20e2198505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-04-09 11:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 9e0a0452b37647a00aed41f866aab2e1 SHA-1: fd01ed320c94d06a9a141a3e5e522340bb9342e5 SHA-256: 80a7bd20e21985059e24fc6ce66858154abb5110b43729804902a14ec0d0806e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links to external websites, many of which are structured as PDF files with numeric slugs, indicating a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of external URIs suggests a potential for malware distribution or phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://akronjoeys.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550706/130550706.html#tesis+upn+contabilidad PDF link annotation
    • http://bestvehiclesforsale.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324324/mibexegudetuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adu4us.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543050/wujopurewabij_luvuliwi_bobibolixe_fobure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clientacq.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969671/fokewapijegoweduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canopalma.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604658/047e9917ae3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietlicious.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476034/mivadubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louromartinsadvogados.pt/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/25b09591322e89d.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C97 8844 bytes
SHA-256: 547738e878302de1b55768506ec709d8430f4039b4523802a4f1f642c5b36275
font_01_sfnt_off00009ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CA0 2420 bytes
SHA-256: 6c8203cc433f3c43ff2dfa1252dfda58061aa43394712e2f2bef77a18bf374e6
font_02_sfnt_off0000a764.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA764 16648 bytes
SHA-256: fcfb3bb3734280c83b7e8f40476e4be14383df497b026725fc58954651f710b2