Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac723020ffb9b660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-05-17 22:13:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 37d0089c19d876b4fab2ac49707f7693 SHA-1: 5bbec2e9e3e014147d5e2fb5fb63ab0de9d32ff3 SHA-256: ac723020ffb9b66008e776f88fd635d1c4d48e1826385eae0aaa840b79fc6ab6
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which are numerically or slug-based, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text indicating it is a 'formal letter of request' and includes the wkhtmltopdf generator, which is often used to create such documents. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to visit these external URLs, which are likely malicious or lead to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://maiereducationalconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620873/130620873.html#a+formal+letter+of+request
    • http://jacksoncountyiowatourism.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740508/4961846.pdf
    • http://candlelight-rsk.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969473/xelabumudenobareno.pdf
    • http://olechnacampfire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775997/rufadin-buvad-guzobuvige-sidonib.pdf
    • http://alaskahealinghands.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604803/moverasetitur_gogeriwinivor_kirixakiv_mizopina.pdf
    • http://harrisonburgdui.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969774/xewelotixutono_gorufomeg.pdf
    • http://mendhikabyd.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541688/3228142.pdf
    • http://bradwarnermedia.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604312/6667043.pdf
    • http://articlesofasentimentalist.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313643/foremuve.pdf
    • http://giving2day.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483488/5737726.pdf
    • http://spicyglitter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408131/luvigepapizoxekokixu.pdf
    • http://myworldlicense.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740196/mavefana.pdf
    • http://carringtonrealty.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398544/7322163.pdf
    • http://alicialopez.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379608/demademorew_sozejusewor_rulixakawa_tazitige.pdf
    • http://expertaenvaciones.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437969/rudegasejesesit.pdf
    • http://cardioanestjc.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323157/06e06faff7d5734.pdf
    • http://earsbylnc.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605217/883811.pdf
    • http://high5lunch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874156/fojuz-jibevo-xonumikidi-tavivu.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_off0000700f.bin
65437dec2d1d7306ba9ec3af73e0aaf56970252ee2248a0cb842604ae0fd6d3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700F 10412 bytes