Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41eb02f83face19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-03-12 11:03:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 9ab522968e0dfe06da1e38767eb1e282 SHA-1: 38ce9f4c1b1963587b4f012a2b13dba5d2af1dbd SHA-256: a41eb02f83face19b762ac1709f8fe87a771965a003761d84e41f61796fc5902
92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. These links point to various PDF files hosted on different domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic also flagged this file with high confidence. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

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://beingself-centered.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130550714/130550714.html#volumen+plaquetario+medio+%28vpm%29
    • http://literary.cafe/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738735/xidesarotemunet.pdf
    • http://www.lessonswithlaney.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775075/kogegojomevonaxe.pdf
    • http://gomriz.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874198/vowuzig_xitokedex_lidumijelup_bazaxerekikit.pdf
    • http://nexgenwork.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775400/pofamamosezuputuwef.pdf
    • http://www.ourblacklist.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543600/gapir_ruzomejuvo_kozumanevunuj.pdf
    • http://curatingarchitecture.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379098/xokezobosifoferog.pdf
    • http://www.ricksaudidouble.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873912/8654165.pdf
    • http://hopeberrybuilders.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287991/d4cdd46f183d1.pdf
    • http://myafricanloveseries.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/1371143.pdf
    • http://lotuscoaching4kids.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130292089/5846173.pdf
    • http://retrocrawl.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740146/puropadevukuz_lexofufek.pdf
    • http://numisource.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588885/xuperagiboz_ponovadofaribip_zixefuvuf.pdf
    • http://kaschnco.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776728/7504703.pdf
    • http://nostalgist.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483512/805ec3f12ef68.pdf
    • http://anuqa.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589396/5511539.pdf
    • http://curbappealhomeremodeling.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813059/wumuwizovamatuzulovu.pdf
    • http://barmuscleup.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543787/9423897.pdf
    • http://laurenwalker.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813663/3f89b4cecf2.pdf
    • http://alexandriasday.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272610/3857494.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_off00007e3c.bin
56a8dbd25fef96441133115258ab237c2cef5799d47476ad78e3b36e863979a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E3C 9360 bytes