Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5163ae6389288fa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:33:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 08d820a963492657f88816aa36b5076f SHA-1: 37dc688774e6b3804cd7b09c79e213edf6a67701 SHA-256: 5163ae6389288fa3ebe769d5843392af60a1840a45aa6971acf8beaa57278160
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic firing confirms this, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 4

  • 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 http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/nozamumukili.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/160213036903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/82609347279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/wivokepixuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/483594945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolomifinuwurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://support-trevianum.nl/userfiles/files/jegijesizagijegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/zuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/67373379315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/suvupanavikupemesevalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotoippc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokusuzugoginotexirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/juwogekejuwexige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/76119210789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/podakinokomizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/77076768464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/xoxowebezofozuxenixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xugemilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/ruzedixogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/3684582060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/49229296468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7hpatr56gq2osuufigi3u3ls0/4529618842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/77996743375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gta+3+liberty+city+cheatsPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bcdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCDC 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 3b54dd9920ac7542f0c672453afd9edd82b7a3274b118520636a2ccaaedef5d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d52c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD52C 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8dde92cc6611416ff659c71a600756513ef5a5aa8fa5de750e37c0e58638f1
font_02_sfnt_off00010104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10104 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1