Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ba54b4a0047e22c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-03-26 06:00:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 9fceb79c328861a90966d287e1c147b5 SHA-1: 9b9a3e28ce7e196985a838e9e4ebb5f2a6c6ca6b SHA-256: 9ba54b4a0047e22cb5d548c247c9e37aaa7469add1bef2ef1f202e34ac767596
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates this behavior, pointing to domains like 'ozhiking.com' and 'prettyelite.org'. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded links suggests a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially compromised or malicious web pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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 http://prettyelite.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969989/130969989.html#pescados+y+mariscos+felipe+carrillo+puerto
    • http://ozhiking.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476076/5350208.pdf
    • http://art-paint-party.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313212/f7961.pdf
    • http://devilsdrug.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739182/41af7347f.pdf
    • http://chooseyourhealth.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874652/firurewazofo-dukupokurabi-kabojeb-pixubafuwabomaw.pdf
    • http://purposeandpassiontravels.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546742/bolar.pdf
    • http://kathyseayart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969496/7090316.pdf
    • http://vivabrasil.nl/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489627/bixewo.pdf
    • http://europeanprogressiveforum.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588943/poduwexajud_sojuvuwemope_bokivipafaboruk_kivag.pdf
    • http://www.empireinteriors.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621191/3675962.pdf
    • http://pintujav.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324292/2e749fba.pdf
    • http://ninety9brand.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813144/7666811.pdf
    • http://www.thealmostbaldgirl.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588482/sugixega.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_off000062c3.bin
b0974f35de6aa3b8b4ae74e6ef3f0b846924479e00c72cae56c891ae70628f87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62C3 8400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081a5.bin
8bdbc4fa0660802d1c4200059c153e98eb919eb40fd02047fcf25abf6a6cd36c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81A5 1960 bytes