Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 520de02ee4be5356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e80f60dde84621324aad8c963b20b423 SHA-1: fb34c1527ffc182b99eae7e559df6077588b06c3 SHA-256: 520de02ee4be53561412b826a7bf1eae319697a6e9eaefe0e56f0d1b6ec0414e
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files hosted on different domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links indicate a potential for malicious redirection or content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seziwijidikekumavudaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56815250578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/zapanepivuwizola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatnhapkhau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozoruzimebobobunulorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/8348978417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/wexikewefimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/ludov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewcommunity.com/userimages/51355428582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/wovodefifotevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/zaxatavuropefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210902033758_997295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37589698456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kominove-centrum.cz/media/files/file/sakujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vijixaterugemozimifavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109111608094576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fu-ko-property-agency.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/xeridizakemekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5992978618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75840946911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/53632737996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/rukelajagafukovase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/lodatine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=multiplayer+iphone+gamesPDF 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_off0000d7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C9 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 10bcf5bb16f7c141ae46fa1018a9a1d5f61551ce63eaa44636b029e06abea5e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E10 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 272f559099a1fe24a54d3e1f47204779cc6835a12fe820475a0b41e72fa1395a