Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 babee3d3d45bd36f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.2 KB Created: 2020-03-30 15:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: f1a82004c1584441a686e9384b3919d5 SHA-1: 10522bd8fdad6eb8f22abe821ecd95d19d40462d SHA-256: babee3d3d45bd36f196b66bea988da16e7853bc7835e5b3d2f972bd7a27e1cd2
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with a heuristic firing indicating a mass of external PDF links. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a title suggesting educational content, likely a lure. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a large number of external URLs, many of which point to other PDF files, potentially for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the maliciousness is inferred from the PDF structure and extensive external linking.

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://mx.grandsalinelibrary.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605115/130605115.html#libro+del+maestro+de+ingles+de+2+grado+de+telesecundaria+traducido+bloque+2
    • http://nexusathletics.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070983/7979180.pdf
    • http://richardsonsgardenmaintenance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739938/pemajuguwonas.pdf
    • http://deboramricks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775554/nusolorafis.pdf
    • http://urbanthreads.store/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164499/tesavid.pdf
    • http://munchkinsmusic.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604319/tusobuxubelalo_furenabeti_tidixekisaxosir.pdf
    • http://wolfpackqbclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605212/paxuvi-mefisewugukuw.pdf
    • http://celestialmassageandskincare.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969682/4220269.pdf
    • http://artizanbeer.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476976/vifujokapa.pdf
    • http://joyful-learning.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620892/wizaduxev_kamudava.pdf
    • http://donferdinands.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739758/vojifikapobuzu_jekurujebama_kajiki_fegedagetib.pdf
    • http://falconroyalinvestmentmanage.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483153/dumuvejabuzif.pdf
    • http://www.treehuggerhotsauce.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454089/metawutoluloguvut.pdf
    • http://myfemininefinances.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739290/kizesatif.pdf
    • http://mahmoud-metwali.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070904/rofur-begegetuk-wejonefogo-rarujijoreb.pdf
    • http://tamdeedam.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130622080/zajebagojume.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ba0d.bin
7d0e4f26927737c593ed7efda103a1107150fe3ac8ddbcafaf6ee6c0af50a0b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA0D 1588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001c1c3.bin
e4a1988a9a36792610619ca7bfd2297f1dbb20a755b9826210b73dce065689ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C1C3 10716 bytes