Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a8aa0a92eb9ee5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-06-21 17:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 7004909b2fc468f4f705731023bca043 SHA-1: 88dcb80a0b2383221c05081bb9a7db417191292a SHA-256: 8a8aa0a92eb9ee5b30b7945c2352491e0b4ea41d8338a461fa0d8bc3fcbae9ff
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was identified as malicious due to the presence of a large number of external links, a technique commonly used in SEO link farms to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The document body contains several URLs that are likely part of this link farm, suggesting the primary attack pattern is to lure users to these external sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document itself does not contain overt malicious content beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ywbhe.bpmtc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682156/132682156.html#the+modern+gunsmith+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://autodiscover.allureri.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324270/wokenovetimi_pekokisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldwillowcomplex.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289611/nifujukosusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.gpshardwoods.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130542908/nevorotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-log.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303235/148ca5ef13ce9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chefjessicadesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398472/3642259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouvre-ton-compte.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606493/gofiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trumpvictims.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312916/21fe8f0fa107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hottonerink.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604729/lobuzugal.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5524 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9071eea7a1cc2773b93188ebef6e18ca97857b103d66d5788191f9a99c77ca
font_01_sfnt_off00006626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6626 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 9855da120aa3f0a7a95f976e160756a016b2338c51f268f2f1e8b2c88ffa93fc