Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef10d02e30e09bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2018-06-11 08:57:23 -04:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: dd6b27888f44cecc4a793362bcd6dc81 SHA-1: 1321e03929cdcc8d49a05dd02e87366c575c6be0 SHA-256: ef10d02e30e09bae8cbea094879fc4df6867c0207410d64fa9072b8256057a00
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded URLs that mimic legitimate installation guides, but point to suspicious domains. The ML classifier flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload from the identified URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9123

Heuristics 4

  • Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOAD
    The ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
  • PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=x3650-m4-installation-guide.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=x3650-m4-installation-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenovopress.com/tips0850-system-x3650-m4-e5-2600-v2In PDF document text
    • https://lenovopress.com/lp0039-system-x3650-m4-e5-2600In PDF document text
    • https://www.istoragenetworks.com/landings/IBM_Storage/ds3500.phpIn PDF document text
    • https://www.virten.net/2015/03/vmware-esxi-6-0-unsupported-hardware/In PDF document text
    • https://www.sillworks.com/quickspecs_proliant_DL380pG8.phpIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-plays-of-george-etherege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/sonoace-x4-user-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-collected-poems-of-lvaro-de-campos-vol-2-19281935-chris-daniels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/teach-me-xxx-3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/toastmaster-tbr2-user-guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/this-food-that-wine-wine-and-food-pairing-made-easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-influence-of-faith.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-holy-spirit-preaching.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/thomas-finney-solution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-resort.net/1/serway-jewett-physics-for-scientists-engineers-solution-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/manual/515309/Ibm-System-X3650-M4-Type-7915.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/brand/ibm/server.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/products/Ibm-System-X3650-M4-Type-7915-2939030.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1138837/Ibm-X3650-M3.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/brand/ibm/In PDF document text
    • https://www.manualslib.com/products/Ibm-System-X3650-M3-4255-1882451.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=897/ENUS106-379In PDF document text
    • http://love-zzang.tistory.com/entry/BIOSRAIDIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-US&dl=en&lp=KO_EN&a=http%3a%2f%2flove-zzang.tistory.com%2fentry%2fBIOSRAIDIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibm.com/support/home/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5094163#In PDF document text
    • https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/lnvo-sg2012In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
    • https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
    • http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000431b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x431B 10968 bytes
SHA-256: b476967433618461bab6623887d1cc6dd5fb347d641cffdc4a67f3285cb98947
font_01_sfnt_off000065bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BC 8180 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8351a300c17207d19168d28da605bb40f819577ae61d4b245e16e7a41ecfa9