Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cebef9f3210da6ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.9 KB Created: 2020-06-04 08:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f9f6d880dfe400e809e220e344426ff2 SHA-1: 2dbeeb9a3f6b60c93052a3912fb7b5ae4b81730f SHA-256: cebef9f3210da6ff594c0def0f89d0dd1822450d4144bfe817152123b24dc5e8
94 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, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various domains. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a question and references to wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's a generated document. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a network of linked websites, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the maliciousness is inferred from the link farm and ML classification.

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://7qswk.bpmtc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452935/131452935.html#what+was+the+electron+s+initial+speed%253F
    • http://globalinvestmentforums.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589158/8158078.pdf
    • http://payteens.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130477036/8ebf0b87d7f.pdf
    • http://iamworthhim.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588922/60b74180efb.pdf
    • http://katskornerinternational.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130489072/fulazogixumigom.pdf
    • http://thevegarab.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738753/7571070.pdf
    • http://skinsoullove.nl/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437886/2352763.pdf
    • http://flemingtournament.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590325/sagawik.pdf
    • http://wangziyulekaihu.br3h.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590241/0665637b823.pdf
    • http://wu.undesirable.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775651/1759644.pdf
    • http://support.futureappleceo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739499/5747603.pdf
    • http://7qswk.bpmtc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452935/terms.html
    • http://7qswk.bpmtc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452935/dmca.html
    • http://7qswk.bpmtc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452935/policy.html
    • https://witudekodi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dukelusikewasoxujirufod.pdf
    • https://pusetojax.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zivawexururusegevabineko.pdf
    • https://pafekuka479092809.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/mopiwusorowegoniwedebu.pdf
    • https://zutabav590496275.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/64284487884.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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005166.bin
86acad2dde498f964ca133663f00881fc4f141560ed7782f1b72553165f80216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5166 10040 bytes