Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e2189a26783261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-06-22 11:46:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: f02f019a076a1b79154d0df558d80c6d SHA-1: 22b090896e56337529ac599eaf955dbc65dedc68 SHA-256: e4e2189a26783261e45065c098753b0a79e74a8319514a5349eb47b4555488a3
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded external links, a technique commonly used in SEO poisoning and phishing attacks to direct users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a link farm. The document body, though obfuscated, contains URLs that are consistent with this attack pattern.

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://1tei2.slpny.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969044/130969044.html#biology+concepts+and+connections+6th+edition+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://storbakkenkinders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739833/c5e78b42d5d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2globalshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969270/2152059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardendream.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813738/5592439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://june-madness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453871/834604723b409e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontyre.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639034/4154702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://74-123-73-38.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379503/8981277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitedpolitics.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452733/faxoropuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmail.philippecorriveau.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639535/zelekubibizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harvesthealingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589338/08f70caa7fe.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000415c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x415C 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 9c966a72653c165ad7fce1e3fac8f099f189ae3d35912286eb81126fe5eed862
font_01_sfnt_off00005425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5425 9588 bytes
SHA-256: ed2ad7662bb39a2c3cdb36be9a529bb051de2edc7c5b22b009175e42bf5d8f28