Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8f5953d2b431577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2020-03-08 02:26:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 2614596575f4d3489acd123c866681fe SHA-1: ebd287710debb1180b27c64a3e0df66e281297aa SHA-256: d8f5953d2b43157727ea7558561bd16a7d41afb7ec9f80ef8c976e4fe02ab398
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains. This is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains text related to 'rheumatic fever' and 'rheumatic heart disease', likely used as a lure to attract users to click on the embedded links.

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://mail.evylareau.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775413/130775413.html#incidence+of+rheumatic+fever+and+rheumatic+heart+disease
    • http://apayservices.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070498/kiwedegaboz.pdf
    • http://pyplservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604731/dijebevaxelufofog.pdf
    • http://chinasummercamp.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130271157/dovurosoniwedilosu.pdf
    • http://drzen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604516/godalokadur.pdf
    • http://www.katiekilgore.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130544043/kuroteguseto_gidulumibap_wavoriwigodozat.pdf
    • http://drjulieneil.preview.pethealthnetworkpro.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543870/3585917.pdf
    • http://papilloncreditorservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640225/9261149.pdf
    • http://novelnaturesolutions.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738614/411170b.pdf
    • http://myapotheka.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483215/699fd9d9f14.pdf
    • http://fleximeet.org/uploads/1/3/0/4/130490461/zudolaresuzedoz_goboliwuk.pdf
    • http://kdpproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639256/mexiba.pdf
    • http://35andunder.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130324152/repupunukefa_finexevaniso.pdf
    • http://newriver-yoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621134/2650488.pdf
    • http://kobrathelabel.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379227/38b0672f7388.pdf
    • http://somorra.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540266/5850781.pdf
    • http://mrsscunningham.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379391/3012639.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_off0000d890.bin
712722b7000b69948440ee8e485b7da3ec84026e628491c1db1672ee8b688483
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD890 9852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc25.bin
4e9ae17c41f053e7ad2cff4c16f4465db96732130fdde230725ded2fe80853ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC25 3156 bytes