Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 864ec30b6de9641f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-03-30 13:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 013071dd6e7d31828a0c6bc7387f1e31 SHA-1: da4df80a2d12eb8f93dfd7d77ac6b1387ccd68e1 SHA-256: 864ec30b6de9641ff298aacd1974c91391575c6e7aad929302332a81a895c58b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for users seeking chapter answers. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, likely to drive traffic to malicious sites or distribute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://cityonloc.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620185/130620185.html#cc3+chapter+9+answers
    • http://sunfamily.xyz/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550781/f85192c.pdf
    • http://biofieldtherapy.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379343/5279449.pdf
    • http://captainsensory.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130475892/fufulutodavimawil.pdf
    • http://ageless-wellbeing.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589202/5772099.pdf
    • http://wundrmediapro.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380001/gawaderopojaxumotixu.pdf
    • http://nickminion.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130270957/8895785.pdf
    • http://scservicesky.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550868/7147569.pdf
    • http://happytales.online/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489343/908193.pdf
    • http://9f60hpk065.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543156/989332.pdf
    • http://boilerisland.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603905/gubil.pdf
    • http://round4boxing.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640191/f3033ee41a594.pdf
    • http://tiferetmiami.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639613/2512098.pdf
    • http://mikefosterstunts.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550855/kozipasimaka-nigivava.pdf
    • http://saladextraveganza.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776219/d6ee5b2df2dfb.pdf
    • http://tweezty.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489367/8226285.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/
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006834.bin
a61f963b2bcd5749dfbd44e58937fc67d57da5a49d793c9d829568d0244df7ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6834 8044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000878c.bin
e2f1373bf3d70a40ff4276a486f0a1d2d32154e4f45ad1243a44c3d3b7d91cea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x878C 2652 bytes