Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ade1e06c897bf00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-04-19 02:57:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 4b50a8bc0c6d9ae7a436516fe6979f7e SHA-1: 6db96fde8b707c1c9769468ccfc12b88885f66d1 SHA-256: 5ade1e06c897bf00407e4115b884c638228b6efc2dce0ae216e9c5d93c04dbc1
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links aligns with phishing or malware distribution tactics. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuloliresu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/14219433733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72789215659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/kimakevenowafuxopepasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/pakajumotarowumomudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/jebumimebugamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/fajabenofedutetigolexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+usb+port+to+power+supplyPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fivedexexefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/gijewosatesozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/87767597376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/86626084736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.pdfIn 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_off0000dc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC53 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 7a880977352a27c0cf226a2edcbc1a187bf2f88e0135d5684c495864b664287f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED86 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 66c8dd67a3e136a9ca0401d78fe208645b2030265a336ce570a63f12a10ecd35