Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56edc89b0b11588c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 09:17:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 117fe87b321ea1c4609cda5e9438e8b1 SHA-1: 261c8171b0bd30c82efd5fd2848161f203f89761 SHA-256: 56edc89b0b11588c791b84d76d9e34ea6ba8c90f5c7d906e4ff127ec09f2e7f7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary URL, 'https://baarspo.ru/aws?utm_term=the+difference+between+cats+and+dogs+funny+video', suggests a potential lure related to search engine optimization or content farming. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive linking behavior indicates an attempt to drive traffic or potentially distribute further malicious content.

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://baarspo.ru/aws?utm_term=the+difference+between+cats+and+dogs+funny+video PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425784/normal_603845e26e31d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebafanivine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136054257/xewalewivupabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roturusuwanowus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363773/zifadutoxadabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mafaredoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695491/093d4c4c36609d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowexusaje.mypressonline.com/capture_one_12_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fegivate.medianewsonline.com/31506399447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zifixoribe.scienceontheweb.net/mathematical_aptitude_questions_and_answers_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454301/normal_600b441150d8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382190/normal_600611449a775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4ec63ec4-77bf-4499-900e-7c522af20654.filesusr.com/ugd/35bdb9_95e2e6beadde49b18ff3347f10b2af47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44407f20-7244-4107-9544-84d8151b6f9a.filesusr.com/ugd/8508de_26861538d62047da86f9dd71e7ce8ce4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://13fad4bf-7224-44b3-802b-16842e97d241.filesusr.com/ugd/b14664_1a9245239399434d81b4ffb1776994c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tefetuzuzip.myartsonline.com/how_to_use_a_top_load_washer_without_agitator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a62e46b8-d933-4087-892c-e5439cec6991.filesusr.com/ugd/e9cba9_f9c3360f18a54dd98863ea06cbf5c69d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1fae3a98-13b7-4b95-b1f0-1fbd1b7b0aee.filesusr.com/ugd/1da05d_6c7f75361a914e18b0f2948841a9d750.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d818d046-f3ad-4fd9-a47e-cf1c54cfb0e0/en130_english_composition_ii_assignment_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22d1a34b-bad7-4426-b154-f231513a907d/how_to_fix_printhead_hp_8620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ea9429b-0332-4ee6-bb75-ab9535b56c99.filesusr.com/ugd/e2f7e1_860eff4393bc4d418b3ef3ce429150da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6540ab3-1ed9-454d-b7f3-bef23087f778/que_significa_c_d_u_en_matematicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://989244f3-426d-4557-b4f1-0018dac9047c.filesusr.com/ugd/57c819_781ae46fe4814b2084c845c89de5966b.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_off0000fe80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE80 5596 bytes
SHA-256: f9dcd84f109f13c0271906cbbcb2d910950900619560adf14c196ff377220ac0
font_01_sfnt_off0001119d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119D 12020 bytes
SHA-256: 4acf7e7bfd29efe1492b2abc21ec9f09d87eca5bc953da7ce730a5df67ac7dfe