Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 102588cf5b326325…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-10-17 01:44:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 284355661e2c69361a57069c4a004972 SHA-1: 38b9d92ca635bed5d5572ee31e37d184fb0a63aa SHA-256: 102588cf5b3263254d1b8c2965ab42741de4e3225d4a97c4da585a376202ac63
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a potential SEO manipulation or content distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links suggests a watering hole or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 4

  • 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 http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabifaxadoxokutafed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/98788565084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/sijokulilufenunesixorow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/lepatopofatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/24539788348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/5702988862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/30888493553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/82048114415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021090807441873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tugrabilgisayar.net/resimler/files/49351479615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/87048837169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/nunetapogepujoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/fezobidazebusika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/42229742025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/648adb22d803d6516869c6c23968c286/xoluzedupososisajugexawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/20965126841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/19739323933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteprotectiveservices.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65399192389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2222.netsociality.com/upload/files/gozewowapolebabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef3596051a3c18b19f8390466b961d85/31878797115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/22438735844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69800793307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/37593815181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechnews.cz/userfiles/files/35213026618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/1hHberoKktI/uplcv?utm_term=forming+and+naming+ionic+compounds+labPDF link annotation
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4C1 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 8308e5a19bd44cdeaea5e824465f3297a2ee8829c3672fc4d2c03229f32588c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3E 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 5de305cefd385e944a3e03cc93d25ec77bf2f59f5a1db09ea0df34c7e354c289
font_02_sfnt_off00010781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10781 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1