Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa70c74fbb803672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-04-07 12:57:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: d1ba155845fd53877976a11171d31777 SHA-1: b5369f8253add5007ae9d7707ea0bd3671ad1ce4 SHA-256: fa70c74fbb80367202cf9bc1597a9380df4e526ed95acdd808ac1a95c47d7e64
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of external links to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a mass external link farm. The embedded URLs suggest a redirection or content delivery mechanism, likely to host malicious payloads or phishing content.

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://pintexsolution.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488432/130488432.html#bosch+glm+40+laser+distance+meter+40+m PDF link annotation
    • http://lovehopedine.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588650/8837251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zorgdoel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813483/5499040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guyerfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313643/c1594581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seaspelldestin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739326/pigulusikoz_jodatugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izyandoly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738835/3549705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://su-tzaiyin.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163777/2207520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmstofamiles.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621530/xibokozajorowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lgipowerwashing.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604675/fitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalbehaviourcoaching.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874475/01f0e8dbf56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifiebutterflys.org/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639209/b3e300ef04e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonrisasparadios.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814584/b8ad729712776.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EAC 8192 bytes
SHA-256: 9ea9d915a28d798f29094e918c0782e5d73e020ae603e80c87f341c5d21f1477
font_01_sfnt_off00007e94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E94 16248 bytes
SHA-256: fb31025025499a0fb01c3c1bd89e32baf051e66ef536a35089523545b6160756