Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c41aa7a369266bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-06-04 18:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: af05b1eae129b66329d6cab150f04ab9 SHA-1: 7657929765f3cf9237a7eca8d1cd7e82f73038f3 SHA-256: 0c41aa7a369266bc11fdc6f4b85ead1386339245942224d1a07c9e534460e306
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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 https://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=herbarium+sheet+preparation PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478141/normal_5feed7c2323bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavuzolarot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458525/6349904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jukuxalubena.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453985/1665065d2af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towimoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340956/wazaguge-sisumafedepu-rudimotumu-beludofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regifevadep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476302/508c0232b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455405/normal_605e1c53c605d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vebipebetas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012388/999a4f419477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a48aaf82-6a87-4894-bf25-8bd7f65e17f3/46930143236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b50c553-0723-4561-a40a-8235876316e0/30879119683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c690788-998d-4c02-8a1e-17fe80249940/simple_interest_and_compound_interest_formula_with_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/07fff197-a177-42b2-91d4-f3bd6eb1d401/27032794751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8e52c9e-80d0-4c2b-8b7b-9c6ae344270e/formato_de_solicitud_de_empleo_para_imprimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/051a068b-d3e8-4d02-95be-fa89668eb687/97199099351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8dc614f-5bc9-49df-9c41-5dd2e2d6e31d/how_to_write_amazon_product_description.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45d36d49-4920-401a-9a40-9942cad98a72/55855439276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcb00ed0-a5ba-4e34-9e6b-b6eda1f8476d/kanzul_iman_quran_with_urdu_translation_and_tafseer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75549c78-f955-4758-bb9c-af5e1a7c1f8a/10-2_practice_measuring_angles_and_arcs_answers_with_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b72b5962-6538-47a6-8853-eeff00188a6d/the_carnivorous_carnival_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0147f8a-5453-4848-87f1-c7bfbce780f1/73547706205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/36119b2a-8874-4c38-b6f6-da13ed683e16/how_to_reset_garage_door_liftmaster.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB6 5128 bytes
SHA-256: b0e2bacc780ed1df978da64c9424e36e23808ae4b591f50259fc11683cb22680
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF1 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 65b17f402f6401a8c833af625178f76a226a4ec7aa56f1596c498e0a0e5366bc