Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd286ae66dbb8d3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-06-06 06:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2fd16b6b44e22837835183ef5ae21f1f SHA-1: d1b4207e849b97b5ad782c7ca6ef36bc69e68ab2 SHA-256: cd286ae66dbb8d3d0e86d537097a7cdcbc42032e31fa79bd168092ca6da29aa5
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs embedded within its structure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO manipulation or redirection to potentially harmful content, as evidenced by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic firing. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://nexisnailsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775111/130775111.html#rem%25C3%25A9dios+para+desfazer+os+quistes
    • http://mutinytv.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739876/9701708.pdf
    • http://hypnosispaloalto.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604406/bilubiwuxi.pdf
    • http://acdinvestorsoffsbo.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621926/gelewaz.pdf
    • http://growingfullyhuman.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589342/jeragozi_fenugarekes_mimiduwijabad.pdf
    • http://postmaster.byboukje.nl/uploads/1/3/0/5/130541346/davajekeninapipawe.pdf
    • http://danadadamo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437728/3458410.pdf
    • http://darcyk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740213/jewuvemarej.pdf
    • http://southernexposurephotography.biz/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814871/jekem.pdf
    • http://webdisk.houseofdiamondsart.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288932/80463b64134e0.pdf
    • http://torontovideoproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590117/94d027532d17f.pdf
    • http://everhartcollectorsgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452826/bapineje.pdf
    • http://jadimasalah.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303099/b54c54f.pdf
    • http://nexisnailsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775111/terms.html
    • http://nexisnailsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775111/dmca.html
    • http://nexisnailsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775111/policy.html
    • https://xivoxatarapi356210982.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/25715568528.pdf
    • https://weguvagepeso.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/405513679.pdf
    • https://kataxufekor.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zuraxukimipefidaberu.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_off00007179.bin
e90289931ab19fa36bc06a0c07751611abdce2a9c24956760d53986176633552
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7179 12888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009952.bin
3b1167557c0500c78008053c404847a906c4d495ef15adec583fc97e76626070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9952 16068 bytes