Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96f629c0ae0c2482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-03-08 05:24:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: eb5cddcd5c5eb1c89c8fd12b8d98540e SHA-1: 642137477619c54c49bcc4a815f9374838bba235 SHA-256: 96f629c0ae0c248220f2fa00eed42e05e5792d8686387359989410f2c7cf05a6
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many with numeric slugs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to medical guidelines and the wkhtmltopdf application, which is often used to generate PDFs from web content, further supporting the link farm hypothesis. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://host117.carmichaelnl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775833/130775833.html#american+college+of+gastroenterology+guideline+management+of+acute+pancreatitis+2017
    • http://www.dev.kl-creation.fr/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435821/179ddd.pdf
    • http://oahupix.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620564/mebajal.pdf
    • http://www.treasuredbits.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740623/wususevoma.pdf
    • http://mrvangeelsclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814351/toxumuga_votofiku_lavinixarevo_dunerejiwajo.pdf
    • http://www.onestepborders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776037/tevof_ditozut_lobudonikel_pejiwisegaxe.pdf
    • http://christieaariaemby.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490687/xajixavage_xopisapew.pdf
    • http://blackbusinessexpo1.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588987/8fabaa2e0.pdf
    • http://ohioccwtraining.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639030/sasagavim-kopesosufeb-zedujegub-fizurekazujaxaf.pdf
    • http://creativityrevival.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620693/dafuwedisiw.pdf
    • http://cassidytrom.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874035/162140.pdf
    • http://totalplasma.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620185/wotezofusi.pdf
    • http://brushlove.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775918/2713055.pdf
    • http://wordwatts.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620990/2538559.pdf
    • http://fibromyalgiahealingnaturally.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379928/9324021.pdf
    • 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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d9b.bin
f4881b7b7552003f63bc1ffa2bcb3c2d16e2d15aef780e48d80610e86cba8457
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9B 8856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ef7.bin
c96d6750c986962f8c59bcd816ed2d5df4b0e62bd7ecc8e827034f7b10343afe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EF7 16200 bytes