Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 560d7357c196b81e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-05-12 16:41:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: c58dfe72341f130e3de721fc6db43132 SHA-1: 24a87d12d0bba57b7445841a5ea0ded7d6d8c692 SHA-256: 560d7357c196b81edb1fb9edb680519c0cc6fb371c6998ef5974d40e70eb41b7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external URIs supports this finding. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to other resources, potentially for malicious distribution or to inflate search engine rankings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+use+elite+egg+cooker PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425487/normal_6049f620dcc47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memezuwiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702577/97f75722a48bae0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuzuvazol/9ZjjgdR/duxokefojobiraxobibazofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fenazijeguk/mgfd6ij/32036049706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zikegasenar/gda4eid/80_90_hits_rock.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rovifatira/xGgh8he/first_photograph_of_electric_chair_execution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375195/normal_606013494e9ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pujapuvefebawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581836/9bd4a8be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vufisolepu/nJZuAho/7428101677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feliwisinawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856919/ribosipojufota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rilixuzewiv/4oshggj/vatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://569e8712-2873-4b93-a654-ea71b6b809e3.filesusr.com/ugd/345929_43e4a75004a543be90142157680f0cb8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://53860ffb-5975-4088-b838-5c82367c2827.filesusr.com/ugd/0d2908_e94f6802db874bada217e198b150238e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://30d6ba4c-d201-4e26-8f31-a0e059b28788.filesusr.com/ugd/f9b8bb_f94337bfbc56493b98765562dd833c69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58319e96-39b7-46c2-ab8f-4cf85c9dbe46/80393231510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ef6fc23-1c1c-4473-9321-b02646334cc3/what_were_three_goals_of_the_radical_republicans_during_reconstruction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75e2dbd5-69a2-4159-8f65-744a9b51ddda/plantar_fasciitis_stretching_exercises_videos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e82bb142-6a24-4ec6-aed8-209010d950d4/pilgrims_progress_animated_movie_2019_watch_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e62d90d9-845b-491d-b9b1-804d55ccd6e6.filesusr.com/ugd/6af1ed_8f535d0a0f0440bebfe6fd519794ecfd.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_off0000e462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE462 4872 bytes
SHA-256: e44141a3ab9058885be88e29e6d9a0ca04d90984b6fac4cb583123cdcfb985a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51A 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 18f79e0aa97b006f9e4634ad2e25155eba51c7a61580d62b1c1cbeb90f093f56