Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3098e8350db09cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-04-25 03:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 87b31180eac2e23c20d0fff03e7b4c52 SHA-1: 751fc33e50f3cdb219567eda9e2efdd4ab3ec554 SHA-256: 3098e8350db09cd74dc4412f7ff238cf6802d7e2b7736e00d036f58b5fc3b81e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, characteristic of SEO spam or phishing lures. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, potentially for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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/strik?utm_term=clean+heat+exchanger+tankless+water+heater PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460725/normal_5fd640334ed2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svoydvalend.xyz/2007_cadillac_srx_repair_manualbgcbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386091/normal_5fe3ddb4b8f7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axecheat6.xyz/biology_class_10_bookhijhh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486354/normal_6010a2178fc47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freefire-gifts.com/tezotarezuxarigau1zj2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403680/normal_5ffe98a191776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422912/normal_606a63e9621a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://368051e9-4199-40ea-b9a2-dc6e6f83cb3b.filesusr.com/ugd/6260fe_ed2911c4364e4863ad660b1b8b244a97.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec679cc6-872a-45a8-b2fd-b1bc8f6ddb77.filesusr.com/ugd/d1d005_607eb60c7acd452fa4a61efa23d0fd13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rixevozajixezos/24559670803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c639bf1-704a-4500-b661-329758898742.filesusr.com/ugd/02d620_3b1b78bb682143ca9737f64d56893c0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://40e214c1-1950-44e8-a195-e2c6eeb23253.filesusr.com/ugd/a517f4_65d580cbfc9a4b0480e0cbd46a0368b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aa6eca1a-c690-4a36-985e-a873157a80b3.filesusr.com/ugd/081493_326701de509b44e1a5452b42f01aec41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wusigipufuvowix/kirby_super_star_ultra_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/07a48802-096f-4e6a-bc25-c9cd00ea2af7/over_the_rainbow_ukulele_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xojafemori/diffusion_osmosis_virtual_lab_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98259784-80cb-4d70-b263-27d6f6838194/learn_python_programming_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_630c35f5563d4ec38a9e1cb64ead8ba0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://12c48f50-3553-44c7-a31c-19fc5df83d07.filesusr.com/ugd/7e0eb0_5a9c587441ab4b57a2777e9fea20dd5e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://da18e6a8-d720-42de-a88c-3f13daad7efb.filesusr.com/ugd/08fe48_c9f33996a4f24e6fbf6403edf93ac8c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://937a8a2d-b41a-4163-aff8-eda6db263557.filesusr.com/ugd/21e6f2_29fac640f8e9431ab41ad48462459c55.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://56352102-112a-4456-a677-0775450c4ed3.filesusr.com/ugd/ed4e87_b4b9aac7c8894ebb8f38b2051a366cbf.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_off0000f61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61A 5188 bytes
SHA-256: d3fbba5d9277f1643af53216bd126eaa57c964e471030eadc951cf0bb08ec04a
font_01_sfnt_off000107cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CB 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 54096771013eea9aa3706d7891834c25ce5f4e88e849a2721224eca343b0c94f