Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4c07e6a4183c4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.1 KB Created: 2020-05-16 06:32:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 940a480014ff0fc4c73eb834342b6873 SHA-1: fcf8dd78db0ebc1452e5d9673e704ff0c8e22f1a SHA-256: 8a4c07e6a4183c4b460702aeb3b6143978358732175f3d8dce1bddf069733b39
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains some of the extracted URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://masonalexandereverettinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291922/130291922.html#ielts+writing+answer+sheet+pdf+2018 PDF link annotation
    • http://stonesdallas.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551198/0ddeaba2311ac16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalitymedicalinfusion.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550712/bisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payperlessforms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/tametuwalowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my123math.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410736/2400176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clouthentication.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384489/gulug-latesaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fieldtripuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070712/d6ad18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofmommytee.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539679/munugulaluzo-pibezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oceanreefcheckin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437173/6613254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1ststopautomotiveinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814462/ruvefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005143.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5143 9492 bytes
SHA-256: 37ea4c4d9cfc5e545f45ffe401938ea354cc55086de75cb230e09c91261b9ac3