Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aff6acafae47f6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2018-06-11 08:24:33 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 49e11957ae63f4420e65f4ac81bf9429 SHA-1: 641988a59db8b1e8e646a143c091b5917927775e SHA-256: 8aff6acafae47f6e9069372172cc38b43a9925994a0ac7c557a5f2c639ff15c3
130 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9454

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-vintage-classics.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-vintage-classics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lake-cook.com/books.aspxIn PDF document text
    • http://www.classiccomicstore.com/stock.asp?SeriesID=1In PDF document text
    • http://www.classiccomicstore.com/stock.asp?SeriesID=16&Type=regularIn PDF document text
    • http://www.banned-books.org.uk/sections/incendiaryIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ljhammond.com/classics/cl3.htmIn PDF document text
    • http://www.banned-books.org.uk/allIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sonurocks.com/bleak-house-international-collectors-library-english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipsum.im/In PDF document text
    • http://www.redonline.co.uk/reviews/book-reviews/40-books-every-woman-should-read-before-shes-40In PDF document text
    • https://essayerudite.com/In PDF document text
    • http://lists.linkcat.info/new/Adult-Non-fiction-Books.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/steamers-and-ferries-of-the-river-tamar-and-three-towns-district.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/thank-you-god-for-blessing-me-max-lucados-little-hermie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/whatnot-takes-charge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/walking-into-it-a-pilgrimage-through-foreign-lands-to-inner-worlds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/wackerly-mathematical-statistics-solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/study-guide-year-10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-fog-of-fear-batman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/size-of-mitochondria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/xerography-debt-27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/solutions-to-a-guide-modern-econometrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparknotes.com/In PDF document text
    • https://www.booktopia.com.au/animalia-graeme-base/prod9780140541120.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booktopia.com.au/books-online/children-teenagers-young-adults/educational-material/english-language-literacy-educational-material/english-language-readers/cYQCR-p1.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-ruins-of-gorlan-john-flanagan/prod9781864719048.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booktopia.com.au/books-online/children-teenagers-young-adults/children-s-fiction/fantasy-fiction-for-children-teenagers/cYFH-p1.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://y.qq.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-US&dl=en&lp=ZH-CHS_EN&a=https%3a%2f%2fy.qq.com%2fIn PDF document text
    • https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibroIn PDF document text
    • http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooksIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thisisinsider.com/most-famous-book-set-in-every-state-2016-10In PDF document text
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_WhitmanIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inside-the-box/201402/thinking-outside-the-box-misguided-ideaIn PDF document text
    • https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBookIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-US&dl=en&lp=IT_EN&a=https%3a%2f%2fit.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fEBookIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loot.co.za/index/html/index269.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D3B 9820 bytes
SHA-256: 145d45d966a31aa66bc2dce69fc6930c5acbcfd5d602610981901c649800d7a0
font_01_sfnt_off00006cb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB4 7472 bytes
SHA-256: c8357db75016bae7a4059777df6f09444a639becebe08714f184b23753cf1315