Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaffc9a23ef7cbc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-03-30 00:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 8279399d8e3c8f105ca5cf5dbcc19306 SHA-1: ac6482dce6eac03f514ba68733c4b6c03f1bca8f SHA-256: aaffc9a23ef7cbc5fae6efab02c8fe1eaef130facf70af7fa7612dfa6e0e381b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a significant number of external links, identified as a PDF SEO link farm. The primary lure appears to be a link to a Spanish-language article about ancient American civilizations, which in turn leads to a collection of other PDF files hosted on various domains. This suggests a tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious or ad-filled websites, or to distribute further malware payloads disguised as documents.

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://74-123-77-115.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739492/130739492.html#cuales+son+las+principales+civilizaciones+de+la+antiguedad+en+america PDF link annotation
    • http://padenpierry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739210/b0819347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prayerflute.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776150/wukekediwabejep_menin_lisero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliedbreastfeeding.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289733/d4091c34d148af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classichorrorflix.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130272516/watitutuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinnovationllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130538981/8371288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-nv.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291910/44b748f85f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcarolineclarke.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130542996/ba2a569d0a8a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snowymoose.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814003/xidiwini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seniorlivingexecutive.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541402/a261a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aims.aiia.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775174/4036d820ac10a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterweathermanagement.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776331/vujogumebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simplypleasantsquared.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381277/butopinozewuji-damikomom-kusora-xizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newlifefrostburg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438442/da6deeca41eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truckingsafetycrm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814338/e4989e46ec403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chefschezvous.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639099/6843183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seizetheworldwithsarah.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588403/67885851b0d8c1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7182 8544 bytes
SHA-256: f8979de6dd77fdd4543f28b0f85993d69c6b2cc1056752ec94f202105f145b46