Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84a2537ca430341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-04-17 02:33:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: fd246370c8a10b247f722b3572960019 SHA-1: e2268fad1b8aebabaa4e56136710e94724d3534c SHA-256: e84a2537ca43034144e7804a477385da2220e1199b3e14288ebe5c573dea45a0
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, many of which point to other PDFs hosted on various domains. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes the phrase 'Editable calendar template microsoft word', suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading or interacting with malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous SEO-like links indicates a potential link farm or redirection scheme designed to distribute further malware or lead to phishing sites.

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://donostia-restaurant.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539820/130539820.html#editable+calendar+template+microsoft+word
    • http://highlightshopping.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813786/f9f8411160757c.pdf
    • http://profilepasser.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483345/vexupozafofeka_xefejo.pdf
    • http://bonitamersiades.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379060/2619073.pdf
    • http://title44coffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551882/805566.pdf
    • http://whyministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384166/rabapepa.pdf
    • http://welcometoyourbodymindandspirit.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814280/fovegiwetijaxuj-lavulepapa-pafezaz-fuluxe.pdf
    • http://chynadolltresses.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130540507/4261680.pdf
    • http://webdisk.noorderlanden.nl/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604009/vekovuga.pdf
    • http://mandwfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398131/997154.pdf
    • http://sasquatchsyndicate.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539085/zexifoxoz.pdf
    • http://sinshape.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384575/zamabotidevodutu.pdf
    • http://weddingdjoxfordshire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739222/5782bdb3f15f.pdf
    • http://chbookpros.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313513/rejotakib.pdf
    • http://foodstopmalaysiacuisines.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639062/cb1c497.pdf
    • http://whyministrie
    • 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_off00007fa4.bin
25051acd31433c66740a005c7435d617dc4b7e24ca215e775a9ce63db324971f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FA4 7456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009ce7.bin
2dd05fea0cb85059f8eadf883dfa77533617bf048b71d14041bfe0b9caf9ea4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CE7 16560 bytes