Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2e721bd487b015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.5 KB Created: 2020-03-09 06:45:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 58e704723c818dcdef8606bb1f9a243c SHA-1: e56635353cfb39581eabf2468bc7c885cc591e16 SHA-256: cd2e721bd487b015d439ae3b7ef0d1cdb53853ddbb39b6fb180656e5c2dfb933
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are dynamically generated and point to unrelated content, indicating a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to devotional songs and references to the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be directing users to a network of potentially malicious websites.

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://www.kelseyandmichael.rominastiebenphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436159/130436159.html#telugu+ayyappa+devotional+mp3+songs PDF link annotation
    • http://localizegps.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130323329/ronigoza_mekidegafiwama_ranomaxigexad_bonadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytemetric.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874156/8178665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thereedmachine.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621140/4938909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityfirstlennoxtown.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639790/delavakotofus-kudanojig-zenijidizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynicetruck.site/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740124/35fdaaf6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pleazeus.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483407/karov_xurizorisujuxal_wuzada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolivinghk.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313567/c469f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vineetchopra.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071188/4548836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leapfrogcamo.ca/uploads/1/3/0/6/130603941/kuzuwowomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrender2himlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483858/5dd92550a5c642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crownchoiceproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873946/a5fd39baec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzpaintco.clientdemo.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775142/76d72c0ce01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instantprojects.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621840/468629.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_off000053b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53B5 7544 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa356fe8c7deaeea3a54b05e6f69ec789e075328110562632fd30351502449a