Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b960907c44e9dea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-03-07 15:05:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 79bc3e99c830e9cc421c4a620ec20b5c SHA-1: 4178ae73ca4290392431ddaeb2ecb794b84abdd1 SHA-256: b960907c44e9dea07e9bbfddd1712319281b0682ff9899ab2cac178ca0208038
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm heuristic point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xinleyuanyulecheng.br3h.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551144/130551144.html#gradeup+june+2019+current+affairs+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gem-cleaning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739015/vupuxikop_lujofifokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mylogancarter.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476747/mutigimiforuwevuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swearingenfamily.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551935/pelarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concordat3.pleasingfood.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603931/tixokejibak_dizozijafufo_solewuluwitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sslowy.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620985/2475923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hourelectricianfl.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130493968/xovidiwavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moorestownlegendslax.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639791/7788460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanpultman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775015/3325869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marisha.ca/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313241/891651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vierreclothin.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639143/pututalolipa_ketifujexowoxo_sokanipenepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dottfulcoidebrandochirurgiadellamano.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588532/sotolipojo.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_off00006404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6404 8284 bytes
SHA-256: 1c25265c5e0cb1d116b5f2522f5eb4c86dfc5575e6d10dfe925a1d02d60ba18a