Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 238cc2946e43d0c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-04-03 14:38:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d2bfdc4f57fad5483db8339d6e74e694 SHA-1: f6ca526046eeb7f96ecb97a5d22613c7f1685073 SHA-256: 238cc2946e43d0c2eb30a0f85ae642542299b3d635ea2346f157948b215e6a81
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. Several of these links point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to harmful content or for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the link farm behavior as a primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=eso+survey+locations+bangkorai PDF link annotation
    • http://sentytld.online/84084381722td79m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detonic-buy.website/correlation_and_research_methods_review_answersvgnba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onenature.space/difejamuvisidudajonimiekqj4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cashbackmoney.info/mekipozizexovuziz1fg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d19eea1b-2829-4046-843c-36528375d764/nutone_intercom_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f84ffea9-2755-49c2-9cb5-47ca8b55fe65.filesusr.com/ugd/0adedf_667168fafbde4051a416db4f0a676850.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06099855-2331-4405-b160-88c0d45a7b78/5190041403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d27f5a54-eb6d-48a7-bcba-040eef2af4fe/48179226422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3b61eab-bc4d-496f-9a39-fb82f3fc96bf/showtime_rotisserie_turkey_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godubaxedija.rf.gd/33508182474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2ef074a-a51a-426f-9765-089bfe185aa7/rijomofunijazamolesaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagubevisus.rf.gd/blighted_ovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riberudedanute.epizy.com/lagodobawubekenofibomuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojarine.epizy.com/malacate_manual_para_4x4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f94540c-c1c9-49ad-987e-20419c4b34ad/46467484032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0733e052-64ae-4b80-9cdb-72abafb55498/47569596590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6448a590-b571-4b71-a9e4-820b8531b153.filesusr.com/ugd/782be2_5789ec0b597541bab0962fd0b73561ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_5c1db320b5be4cc9a8d0af5949cd6ad5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://28ed73df-463f-41d7-bc87-4635118fd8e0.filesusr.com/ugd/74acc8_de7a41b49f524da189f8a05a363d145f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d17035b4-ff2a-4341-b22e-53a068cdb0db/63588050772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8999c750-8483-47da-a2ba-826b1f70f1df/50364962544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebirugiv.rf.gd/craftsman_laser_trac_radial_arm_saw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/893f63f6-5e0c-48d1-bf36-24fd558f0f2c/what_is_the_measure_of_a_man_poem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35b9868d-f218-4e3e-a1c3-f08db9fdc30a/why_is_my_nespresso_machine_blinking_red_and_yellow.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA7 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 5976a781c23c3ddbf151889d4e920cf5bf8e68cd6fb2cdb3803458091a2caea2
font_01_sfnt_off00012dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC0 6068 bytes
SHA-256: 1f79b081fe245cf9181f2e6ad484d5de3f355e0828dbe7aa1c14a68e096e11b6
font_02_sfnt_off00013d70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D70 12620 bytes
SHA-256: a3037bdd3f5c62d8941731a947183c905d65e0ccb9b0648b63c03c5df065aa9b