Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccbed56a4c2f949a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-04-23 12:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: a4a9ef1a508ce7c329fae2aeed62f892 SHA-1: a536d67c6eb2cb8ac01b287760146f8658d042fd SHA-256: ccbed56a4c2f949a34094a3d349a9403ba01e2d14a4ed00ca9d3288c1991f236
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to similarly structured URLs on different domains, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Counterweight guide shoes' and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a potential lure or disguise for the malicious linking activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://easyfreelegal.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590589/130590589.html#counterweight+guide+shoes PDF link annotation
    • http://show2web.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438316/c59ed3f804b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmaisd.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813428/8065438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://step11workshops.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551558/niwuxa_kipifuvizaje_gadakufawalotot_lariri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://athl33t.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740393/f51440e3a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russellchapelontheolivegrove.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455416/fenenujokox_lopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adobe.com/).NotoIn PDF document text
    • http://www.google.com/get/noto/http://www.adobe.com/type/ThisIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLNotoIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D66 8388 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd1de3dc07e3918b33ce0d0e73474a6454c0152119f65753170302e88032933
font_01_sfnt_off00007de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DE1 2652 bytes
SHA-256: e2f1373bf3d70a40ff4276a486f0a1d2d32154e4f45ad1243a44c3d3b7d91cea
font_02_sfnt_off0000871f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x871F 4184 bytes
SHA-256: eaa4dde51fd04d4db8dc223d97e5e1aeb2070941b7c144db1acc557f645d9ab7