Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b56c76a7f1afdc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-05-28 06:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: b78d4c8042967e70c5215f1657868015 SHA-1: f666fa3a520bc91794235a52eb16a22a3f53011b SHA-256: 1b56c76a7f1afdc29453abfb2781deaf4c716503f56a02fc193b2d23ce28264e
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic indicating a link farm on disposable hosting strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=energias+renovables+en+alemania+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kifikutomile.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776046/bb7f1d0ab20edb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451563/normal_60062c1716d0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424985/normal_5fd1386a7612f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magirodimape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637482/5404431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukoperupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134743664/2042851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481286/normal_602feb98b7eef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366668/normal_5fe2c3abdbb81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufavipipoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134580953/6720403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaxikagiwuzeno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134698588/jezipevux_jisobigarifomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491148/normal_5febf4699c68c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitasujo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876827/3472e85de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weziriditovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108838/fd55bd7e573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379369/normal_6047bfbeea657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rurasudi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134485231/jefesewanomu-patiwunem-jexevaxerogiw-xakamolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481055/normal_5fd896295a5d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390324/normal_600953a47ece6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamekesilib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892139/viritabogun_tudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a7dcf06-dc94-4f9a-995d-def66f6663b1/kiderun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db2711b2-808f-4f11-b426-dbab3d55686b/brinkmann_5_burner_gas_grill_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a18fbea7-7ab3-4d3d-ba3e-90b52feb06c7/world_history_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/227d6802-252c-4c3c-88ee-6eebfacc9f80/49257902995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4fe43b5b-4b82-4f69-9a82-657d3efc7aef/what_is_self_destructive_behavior.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1E 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 18193a5df246152efe418e73c9164ea9f9bf3dd6d4000ebbb947e14fc4d73ab7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC3 11944 bytes
SHA-256: 02ff07d0a3eacbb8518dff1f84e38d55faca8d348bcd015b49a66bfcfd8eae05
font_02_sfnt_off0001257b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c