Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e741c393c86c3d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.0 KB Created: 2020-11-06 01:47:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e473188a559ba409af0bdb0c907c3933 SHA-1: 0eff711269bf0ddea08ffad713ddaa11150eff9b SHA-256: 8e741c393c86c3d71f4e9d497f9e70f2380c89dfb5a51cb569e2215cdea1897b
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. The embedded document body text also contains a suspicious URL, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 3

  • 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
  • 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 https://trafficel.ru/aws?keyword=scooby+doo+meets+batman+full+episode
    • https://siregudak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738759/88068fdb6b75.pdf
    • https://jugizefabugej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134377355/fukapu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xamibudasagas/transparent_painting_techniques.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cce9ebfe-529e-4d9f-8e46-109428a42e4a/memidisowumolujid.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buxoparadazegu/jigiwofakokexu.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ed2eb4f-a8dc-4d18-9787-d63b80e4f586/kovut.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zalomi/citadel_cronin.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mijedusovineti/tuxotumuz.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/saxefi/what_is_economic_history.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pugomonapoxuxe/behavioral_view_of_learning.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fokapikow/bayes_theorem_examples.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vikukinumet/accident_report_form_child_care.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a09cc2f-e00b-4421-8c02-5696db1c5177/gufomarikudetifaregalutib.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zetare/income_tax_slab_financial_year_2017-_18.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004fbb.bin
8d1db53cdbb78079bfef72b34b549932f1aa39629729e9d5d7af7e2576e369f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FBB 5552 bytes