Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea825403159f359c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

276.0 KB Created: 2014-11-06 12:23:21 +05:30 Authoring application: 377376M(Foxit Advanced PDF Editor) (via 376377000M000i000c000r000o000s000o000f000t000256000 000W000o000r000d000 0002000000010000)
MD5: 1cc487caf236c9f64e76fe8d55c752d0 SHA-1: 472e1890a248ab435a3791e9c05119735e043e6a SHA-256: ea825403159f359c5f3a8526bccfea5184c29aaba651fe9c12120656d21ac6cc
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a direct link to an executable archive, identified by the 'PDF_DIRECT_PAYLOAD_LINK' heuristic. The embedded URL points to an IP address, which is also flagged by 'PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL'. The combination of these heuristics and the ML classifier's positive prediction strongly indicates a malicious intent to deliver a payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the finding.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7154

Heuristics 4

  • PDF link points directly to executable/archive payload critical PDF_DIRECT_PAYLOAD_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) URI whose path ends in an executable, script, shortcut, disk image, or archive extension. Documents can legitimately link to installers, so this is a high-risk delivery indicator rather than a standalone exploit fingerprint.
  • Clickable PDF combines external action with parser-evasion structure high PDF_ACTION_PARSER_EVASION
    PDF has an external clickable URI together with object graph or xref structures that make parsers disagree, such as divergent duplicate objects, parser divergence, or xref offset mismatch. That combination is stronger than a plain link: the document is both an outward-action carrier and a parser-confusion/evasion sample.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://190.14.37.19/~thaisupp/Document-27893.zip

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002ceca.bin
f4d9e7725a333d8ca79690a6b06ea00b60201e6fd496ec8e0e8620fb10cbb311
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2CECA 12812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002ee79.bin
7173fa636b8009341790637e2858d28ad117f013341c61275273629d17f6b15a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2EE79 17308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00031be2.bin
cf8f2850556b82e3efb58b6339e80a02b325fb81d6f7583591638eabb1edd72d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31BE2 17048 bytes