Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20921511605d3d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-04-01 19:44:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: cc9b9dd617cb3b339d31bbe077628214 SHA-1: 0aac8d942f72a4846e51d4f50055fa4d0bb2b295 SHA-256: 20921511605d3d58726439efff58ae67937d34c43161bda937719c296fb913c9
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a 'download button' lure and the high number of embedded URLs suggest the document is designed to trick the user into navigating to a malicious site, likely to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=multiplying+binomials+foil+practice+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sositero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134389363/muwunope_sovubese_zinirutabetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta365.site/81685387728buau7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423188/normal_605a4ad233215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xagufiwukana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694649/kupatepexinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy-todays.online/lexmark_ms310dn_drum_unithfdpg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badetujunomut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857650/4646513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malespw.xyz/official_price_guide_for_pokemon_cardshk9e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alania365.ru/bufulutojafoweseboxuwupoweutdg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473971/normal_5fe30f21a605a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiwikufebalub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438050/4ef6ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408195/normal_5fc8d2e372b5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380869/normal_60225a3b1680a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxatazafej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861408/a50066f7b5.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/2465a9fc-93d1-4703-87dd-cf4a306dd972/red_burn_like_mark_on_neck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/296504d7-6da2-406d-9c29-f0b7e2724b95/32546744288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/347bf535-527b-44e5-bf6b-dd305dda9c02/98812361262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c0e102b-efba-4641-b7fc-347c26357927.filesusr.com/ugd/d420ee_fa7511cd366946d299ae31232d4d8bff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://95049c82-e412-4913-a0b0-e03e83d5170a.filesusr.com/ugd/127d6e_f6f8063f19754de5b1235f1af9edb89c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://769966b8-4adc-437e-bba8-f198cf6e171b.filesusr.com/ugd/41a0b6_fe7521b0581149b7b0db3edd1886ccd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76ec74d4-5c1e-4578-b8f5-5de19f30e8ec/structured_computer_organization_6th_edition_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://13a2bf7a-7930-4518-a7e6-737bf3c0aa4f.filesusr.com/ugd/f5c1a0_069bf6d8d23648859a2aee6be8b3b35b.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE014 5972 bytes
SHA-256: 837c90af8450fe327c70dee642fa9c45f5c0b75d4705d72c004df0073ab664fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f45c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45C 10568 bytes
SHA-256: ef9096589234475702720c384dfb18405680a73fe0e385fef1252e9e1397127e