Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c6b43563f445206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-04-07 23:54:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 5eb9f88f56c2595753b18ec0c565cee8 SHA-1: 51c85c81a8e61bd3d45af33006653183f83d8e17 SHA-256: 4c6b43563f445206b4272977a330a399b69ba570ab890a668d0dc79462fbf676
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' indicates the document likely attempts to harvest credentials or session tokens by impersonating an MFA prompt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs and the MFA lure strongly suggest a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+disabled+iphone+without+computer PDF link annotation
    • http://binisamekogona.iblogger.org/annual_credit_report_request_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/woteruzid/BVUgdjj/selisufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxidodo.22web.org/zakenokanalikugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gidenateg/gpafYIF/3d_join_to_clash_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miraroki/jighfOM/kopawefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xasedogamif.mypressonline.com/noco_genius_g7200_smart_battery_charger_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instapriz365.site/boxofikesaruk8fdf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dukosisevu/ngehfYX/diwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367627/normal_606065fcbf29e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378175/normal_5fe21b5f41a8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowugimigu.22web.org/the_adventures_of_sherlock_holmes_smarter_brother_full_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bataseset/CheFFCt/49096291637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoop-fm.ru/37061132749959qr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedesonor/hajbUgc/fosapekikipapasifixigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://segwaywheelchair.ru/sivososopatowudelufadimemuyb0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383471/normal_602c79fe6b96f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexaputanit.mygamesonline.org/quadratic_equation_calculator_given_roots.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/foxenikap/idiaQiP/xogaposatizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455377/normal_603fe1cd6d44a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makeyourself.xyz/cuantos_decimetros_centimetros_y_milimetros_tiene_un_metrogg6o6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/joxomawezu/BaibWT6/79006937949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479710/normal_5fd6007564458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://sukasorepej.rf.gd/printable_thanksgiving_worksheets_for_preschoolers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoligagomuwe.onlinewebshop.net/pasizema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopiselewanut.epizy.com/fizoxewiku.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001082e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082E 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 847ca5b3b5b5ce579975335e736fe3396547807addebcf9be46a9ff592ddfa65
font_01_sfnt_off00011a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A55 12236 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d87bf5fceba9873cabb00f681f05f82fef3463b7ed2cc40724621c5329415
font_02_sfnt_off0001434e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1434E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f