Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3457cd9279efd81b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-19 05:03:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f2224c791e815d4c4dfe00f50cbe26fa SHA-1: 226ebc757a2928886c50ee1aafccb1b6919e2f9b SHA-256: 3457cd9279efd81bf4e289e301c8fcb02796db147153992e7ca3c8a892bac0ab
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains or known malicious redirectors. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=campbell+biology+12th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vabeluzaxudi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884936/29220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivevadevenumet.mywebcommunity.org/algebra_1_review_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385235/normal_601ba8f9bba63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juzowugaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134773334/lukogaberuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejukoturig.medianewsonline.com/41732633404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitivagep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775950/gidividesetuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414167/normal_60162adb637c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379379/normal_601f57f6eab8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dexajaxalujum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857565/xuzolasixidamis_xexom_wazozemila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366653/normal_603d7ea1e4129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469351/normal_601e83c276a6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetebozo.mypressonline.com/mefimirexapixuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vataponuxizeliz.mywebcommunity.org/vavepopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zoligagomuwe.onlinewebshop.net/workplace_safety_topics_for_meetings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c805f22-5240-4a8e-9b4d-8499607ff1fc.filesusr.com/ugd/76156b_de5769af94a5408da09d26d743e83c0d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8c56b32b-3398-45d6-9c0b-b55146621f16.filesusr.com/ugd/6924eb_eda565088154466fb352cbc16aac2edd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9f349447-249b-4747-956a-316fe86e371b.filesusr.com/ugd/d2b720_a3530f7f623749cd9c7d668ab93541fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f733e552-90a1-4d1f-83ca-a6b36afcf31c.filesusr.com/ugd/38bf1f_fdf1d8eb81f645ad8b9d44e03caf957b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f7927488-8152-43cb-a667-e231f58cc5c5.filesusr.com/ugd/950cc9_3d26686b2b2d4be2a392fe610002462d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://piwolimosopobu.myartsonline.com/wanderungen_appenzell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dc58184e-bbba-402a-8e08-a55d552c8f3f.filesusr.com/ugd/0ebc1f_20e0a704379443e59af1ed93e61c5ea1.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_off0000ef75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF75 5512 bytes
SHA-256: c1f7bb783f02fd9ed6ea51f42db6798fb4cb1e1de3c1e3cce11fbcfa1418deba
font_01_sfnt_off00010219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10219 10912 bytes
SHA-256: ba50f6c557d4dd10c179d814d5e1b2b93e4c44730ac15f7323a2e75b285506ef