Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c30f319b904c6a40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2018-06-11 09:29:58 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: ca5944e275679f45bca0f7e7f2531262 SHA-1: e65d2e556e902c759caff3f06f1df9d5f3288c32 SHA-256: c30f319b904c6a4028ee9723c3afa06d2c8b0c7e75f5f28a230d17234edc19d9
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body and extracted URLs indicate a lure to download a file disguised as academic material. The presence of multiple similar URLs suggests a distribution infrastructure. The heuristic 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8788

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwhome.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zorama.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkdrei.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aukass.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hihugo.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://journaldetoday.com/reads-online/writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losangelesfirstszechuanwok.com/reads-online/writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.todochistes.tv/reads-online/writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lairdcenter.tv/reads-online/writing-clearly-answer-unit-4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogcom.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachwg.de/writing/clearly/writing_clearly_answer_unit_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-enemies-of-individuality-and-mental-freedom-a-lecture-on-why-the-church-hates-thinkers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-mouse-that-roared-disney-and-the-end-of-innocence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/signals-systems-and-transforms-edition-solution-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/special-operations-singapore-1941-42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-gesta-guillelmi-of-william-of-poitiers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/shanling-scd-t300-cd-players-owners-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/tropical-climatology-an-introduction-to-the-climates-of-the-low-latitudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/sony-vgn-nr185-laptops-owners-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/stage-iii.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/student-solution-manual-for-introductory-chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://shiergande.pbworks.com/w/page/59451465/AnswerIn PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617350In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7415 13584 bytes
SHA-256: d8d041630d7c639daf8d0e89b0c5cb6d14e46bf3b1848713c359d10945fe10d2
font_01_sfnt_off00009d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D7B 8924 bytes
SHA-256: 4693b95bfda71290026c1525ef6ec9c7d7405da2385074ba29c64bb8eff38475