Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7821fedd57d7559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-03-26 03:10:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: b7021b5ff46e2dbfce31240c9197ebd9 SHA-1: 25cd780e4328bde340b38f068813607feba8ee8f SHA-256: c7821fedd57d75594d6f04fdb099d4573ca7ebcb949f53cd1a580bdebd581b55
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a malicious SEO link farm, containing numerous external links to other PDFs. The document body and extracted URLs suggest a lure for downloading an "English speaking learning app", which is likely a pretext for delivering malware. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

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://wennbergcontracting.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324419/130324419.html#english+speaking+learning+app+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://breakingnewschannel.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130547275/jifisoziwev-dularipepad-sasuramawawejo-pesotule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charlesskeetrodgers.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489371/60ab93c4a00bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.everopoulou.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070072/puxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthollands.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969703/7292859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wfaeastcoast.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313504/ee301e49893bb41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prescottyogasummit.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814197/f8e5cb91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findapig.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588846/6822051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-iei.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775859/1154801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plan2succeed.net/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323597/barujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desertendocrine.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814788/6425694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jennaluna.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969871/3343213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisepaisley.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620847/2140779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicswimming.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620758/rijuwedegunusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mta-sts.btpbyalison.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323220/3a17ec2f38a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mta-sts.ktchorus.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775244/69d578b738c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triciapagetherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435561/wisarisenodajosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transformationspersonaltraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490151/b5b3b94d0.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_off00006f85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F85 7168 bytes
SHA-256: 58b0901fd5b28afee752efd46985bb61f1ae9caeb6703d4dceefd4d37eac147b