Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8186713cca17d14b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.5 KB Created: 2020-05-25 03:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00fdf11d2cb76c47f5caca9c86650e08 SHA-1: d592dcbbfe95803c467d08f3e19646ca23bd0655 SHA-256: 8186713cca17d14ba9a708304d4b2701642e0f82b4a2bd9b4a5ee9e7cf1938ec
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains. One embedded URL, http://edugate.world/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398443/131398443.html#crack+expertgps+6.23, suggests a lure for cracked software. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://edugate.world/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398443/131398443.html#crack+expertgps+6.23
    • http://jaredfedgerton.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323390/af3b8bde2df8b.pdf
    • http://austenhohendorf.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164171/3b45f4ad4816ed5.pdf
    • http://smokinfranksbbq.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483488/307c508d4.pdf
    • http://rent2ownshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287997/risebikel.pdf
    • http://cooondemand.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313489/4845311.pdf
    • http://3southernsisters.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604315/xuzezulexoka.pdf
    • http://communitybackpackdesplaines.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270986/8448445.pdf
    • http://pinkneyproperties.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272909/tibudox.pdf
    • http://gsahawaii.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621004/tebafapodoxak.pdf
    • http://upgradelearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/zufezorexudulevu.pdf
    • http://allmymight.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382387/dudedal.pdf
    • http://aimesif.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620551/7075987.pdf
    • http://allaroundtowing209.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589126/lubarusetewako.pdf
    • http://ciworldresearch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874569/017ea942.pdf
    • http://justbcosmetics.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589250/lopunu.pdf
    • http://crowdrisediy.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071277/e72e9d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3e9.bin
cf07c2e0bcdf293d1f6a52daab028f81e74b5062ba42799c9ab6c7455b0d3e82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E9 10088 bytes