Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 582301fcab09df1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-03-19 23:11:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 8f2103b6ff2567758eca2c4ba3417daf SHA-1: 9b23eda5a0db3085a24513be9a4b67977a55af02 SHA-256: 582301fcab09df1b560cf79a2865b0f6b83d50b339ce3c82726e79dd0f299c42
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings suggest it is part of a SEO manipulation scheme or a distribution mechanism for other malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of suspicious links suggests a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=is+the+back+road+to+hana+dangerous PDF link annotation
    • https://dufadijikog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325035/texariweduxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wejaduz.mypressonline.com/40374124114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemutixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865820/wuvisetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilowukodol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881933/semunudubovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375203/normal_5fd3b4e698be4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivevadevenumet.mywebcommunity.org/sipogumuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zalinojawovuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886974/3385562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386849/normal_6004b2454e487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zugemenelil.medianewsonline.com/minn_kota_riptide_parts_breakdown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linajijokib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000065/mojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falatunasozenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762474/5135797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465691/normal_5feafc7b55103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382972/normal_5fd7b0c389943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginufadep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668932/1019f7df14837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://db38eef3-7d65-43a4-badd-ba39ed7d9417.filesusr.com/ugd/bd2483_e59ee7d6a0c24cfaa162fea717663962.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kitilogokufalu.atwebpages.com/adjective_prefixes_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a12a05ab-6462-4855-b086-b0a2a961d6d8.filesusr.com/ugd/2c76f4_7e079defdd9b4349ba967116aee5b614.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e06e8306-d71e-4c92-aa1b-e8c52eeb44cb.filesusr.com/ugd/bc4951_5c613f330ab2467186c1e46518106c97.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c8a164a7-2549-4056-b209-d27d417f800b.filesusr.com/ugd/136d3d_1af674f4533a423486e549d867b8da00.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a40b6db0-1679-4e03-879f-ac5827b9aa7d.filesusr.com/ugd/dba42a_030582e3e7364eee80ec089a6c2667dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b56e00ce-d729-42e9-814b-b9a4b194f5ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f6f93f_1ea6576993d640ca81af3a2c5a4dac36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://04a80c79-134c-446e-801b-0c1635678e59.filesusr.com/ugd/5cebf8_3b1783f1c60345e88c39aecd675c2fb8.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_off000111f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F3 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb195d80ead5a61b40a13ca73ee8f0025e013ab439b702aebeab88e14a2f0a6
font_01_sfnt_off000123f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F8 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2e4cd50d8f832b5e38e26ca21f290eb8e9c317263c6ebd32cdc3379da6d7b8