Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2550054e39c61c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 22:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c6f9d8d6db396d1659d81e79bc6506b2 SHA-1: a86bce94480d7dcf440dfa270ba473d64becaceb SHA-256: 2a2550054e39c61c38315e854ae32ba336bb66ba0654ca2d0bf31531a4ea893f
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, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external URIs suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or further stages of an attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was programmatically generated.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=adjoint+of+a+3x3+matrix+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459035/normal_6044947041cac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410204/normal_6036f3f784fcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427080/normal_602f98d662781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basitonivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584834/3513499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebojejuket.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764489/xupok_kavuxakiverego_duzof_donowugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368969/normal_606697b00da63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4463286/normal_60b3c9d03b874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490127/normal_603246dea494b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokazetesolibut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314514/2161740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kexekogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384418/97a86cbb37321c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385869/normal_601576606141e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sovejugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134652237/18ab8dda5a7.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/bf6fc22e-6633-4a5f-b903-142888b7cd15/vavajulosidoweruximevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cabafa3b-25ee-4870-b0f1-929156c40175/tp_link_model_tl_wr841n_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosijiv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144424491/lord_of_the_flies_jack_quotes_about_power.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f264e1b1-7bb8-46de-9392-dde7ad8e1938/pusetibufakiwaxotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://negovijalulu.pbworks.com/f/rijisixowojatenorejime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f3a9d0c-ccb6-45ed-a324-d339e6a38c96/tepojezamabegimizixetigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siseraxoru.pbworks.com/f/gasokaxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipazuwawex.pbworks.com/f/47883206463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zanikofepaj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144873252/zabefonilomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetibubib.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144425082/bridge_to_terabithia_book_chapter_1.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD007 5272 bytes
SHA-256: c5d3669241bd9a7f2d939e587b0c38ed40a217b5b04d05326982762559968305
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F4 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 5b5080e91a72dda70beb7577cad5634cb756cf3c4ee8d473c8c929d744294998