Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2503f98a3ccad0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-03-10 14:20:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: d8e43e0dd5c65ce81c607ff6dae0efd3 SHA-1: 7e8ea0574202fc1dca1e84dcf277be174fe4db61 SHA-256: a2503f98a3ccad0f9d85654e8a4b2f066c71351d0e3ecbc0c4f26071a2332cd8
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains. The document body suggests the content is related to violin sheet music, which is likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm strategy, commonly used for SEO spam or to distribute malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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://webmail.carolynforonda.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551063/130551063.html#hallelujah+violin+sheet+music+with+notes
    • http://www.thirdeyeuniversity.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739268/b837b80684bc28.pdf
    • http://northeastflowershop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739247/bukokasuno.pdf
    • http://thewiseorganizer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740086/2396613.pdf
    • http://selimpension.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621191/3430618.pdf
    • http://nipmucprincipal.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435821/ee64475e.pdf
    • http://myoutdoorvisions.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621951/7228950.pdf
    • http://hersheypetfood.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289205/wiwuvekew-bodufubile.pdf
    • http://jmjlegalservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814254/pategenanapu.pdf
    • http://mail.bridgingbrowncounty.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130552084/kukebef-guvas-nanejib-kitevolaw.pdf
    • http://acupuncture4pets.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739084/vudabisavuvewe.pdf
    • http://autoconstructors.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313208/eb13fa3174.pdf
    • http://admin.eshsi.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776250/rerexuvonisipur.pdf
    • http://zemanedopovao.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639685/bulimanosidi.pdf
    • http://appaguides.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813557/7763518.pdf
    • http://renderbarn.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622075/domofak_lemutekilo_duzuninasiwo_ruzuresixirinu.pdf
    • http://onebottle.info/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476006/petitokevo.pdf
    • http://mobiletruckrepairrichmond.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639362/vukanu.pdf
    • http://maltaglasscreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620823/8c4bf.pdf
    • http://ranger-radio.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489997/715963.pdf
    • http://www.questbusinesses.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604145/buzaduduzukunuduse.pdf
    • http://theaustinproject.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775979/weditoporar-gebepameval.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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000070dd.bin
60565f4c59a53b47974af1792a0cb4f563ef273a6bdc1e3aabd5f6fa65d1eddf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70DD 7928 bytes