Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a3b75cc177e6d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-03-18 11:20:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: f5a3c5f4bc616b43224c8404df1cfade SHA-1: ff201f6a5774fd9e76ef3904de01a1ae4146c1e7 SHA-256: 22a3b75cc177e6d6ff3db8a1cfe835d719e66659458961670d1fc1cfaa4a59a3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, presenting a lure related to lottery winnings or parcel delivery. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious websites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+file+an+aflac+hospital+indemnity+claim+online PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457561/normal_6005caa32419c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500429/normal_602b933f41f8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rifituxajigibik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134519767/4cbdb002b30ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devarewiwigunum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/9825696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezasasipow.iblogger.org/30972189820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvuvadirozo.iblogger.org/74438375496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385421/normal_6024be6dbc2af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jivefumo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776755/pesadeximir-vezadomi-bimuwukageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474218/normal_5fea068d5e7a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemusudavigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135395292/2c878a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368230/normal_5ff69332e618a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458404/normal_5fd1d1d649d3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xibijogoxedugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662411/f31b110f357c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paporese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071113/matit_fizodi_vekuxevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455377/normal_600679a03db81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevenunoxesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341304/metuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://katalulipof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710678/warejosakevunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382958/normal_5ff255cabe745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4b3b4da4-1145-40fd-8a04-0ac29766dab0.filesusr.com/ugd/6c6203_5ad34144986e48a5a3e1154ac0ce4f68.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://02796127-04ec-4c85-b270-c6f7310ebb18.filesusr.com/ugd/ce0e6d_68fde3f796444dd1a913889ea3013797.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0f424234-9c27-4462-a606-4b2ccecf17d8.filesusr.com/ugd/b42a09_fc1dd4463da64c53b1f000762d6472d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://judinola.epizy.com/how_to_remove_lid_of_pressure_cooker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://78fa80b2-8629-447b-ad63-53e91e8d4948.filesusr.com/ugd/8f02de_2fa618b35f78410fad117e31730a020c.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_off00010686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10686 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 1c787ad36e5a7b1442f08144e9f2ea9f08239c682e18d4e7ed7bb4dea41101fa
font_01_sfnt_off00011909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11909 11192 bytes
SHA-256: e56d0e06f4469b18e95752fe806d750344a1285410139004770ca81b84fd04cf