Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e28ce2132ea26f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-03-09 10:00:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: eb66fb0a9125d133e28ee938027b0baa SHA-1: 7054a84f36e491bad61c66800e8b3f3478dea4a7 SHA-256: 9e28ce2132ea26f2bb9309e53047e007e220e79a18c3d2468964855b6dd0c48b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on different domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attack, designed to drive traffic or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the suspicious nature of the embedded links.

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://kyflowernseed.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289595/130289595.html#cafeteira+dolce+gusto+genio+110v
    • http://rhphire.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640003/dalufu.pdf
    • http://skylinedc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873818/repuwujiro-duxalur.pdf
    • http://skillboxconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739962/d4af405c3104b0.pdf
    • http://millie4good.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130491488/23f78d3.pdf
    • http://www.anesaspeaks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814346/64768a60.pdf
    • http://www.nocompromisecustoms.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323374/cb0173.pdf
    • http://atribecalledhern.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639803/2886380.pdf
    • http://openradio.es/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272458/wufetubejomuvuso.pdf
    • http://wentcruising.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620772/78747b5e4a2.pdf
    • http://scalefreenetworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313553/500fb.pdf
    • http://leslieelizabethdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588899/410139.pdf
    • http://gadaboutplaces.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488544/ripijisi-talegizup-runovo-xabasimubezur.pdf
    • http://lotusmobiledetailing.ca/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476389/xupiwinewewomare.pdf
    • http://www.disior.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874095/3404839.pdf
    • http://riverfrontroyale.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324270/38cfd9cf2d868.pdf
    • http://captreefishingboat.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323421/3467229.pdf
    • http://mrbluespark.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541733/wamagalugipu.pdf
    • http://haulinoatslogistics.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620881/5632850.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_off0000765d.bin
ac3be3987d200b0d1ff38679bce6e24bf6059352eb835e503645a3673ea0ce4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x765D 10560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009903.bin
e91619dfd4c72a85464d95ef1ba4e67df13020651c42071bafbe521a61d9f7fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9903 2652 bytes