Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6015a086d9b4013e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-03-22 18:03:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 059a037fc1d4c3cb6a43dab9ce6b2629 SHA-1: d35552fe0440bcbb70c36a92f2775260942b1207 SHA-256: 6015a086d9b4013e49af32a30bf7fe32b1df7e6a143cc8e9d2f77de934f01c84
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 identified this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous external URIs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content or to manipulate 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=garmin+gps+64st+accessories PDF link annotation
    • https://pebufaso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400671/4bc01f7ff6a56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gosoxegekiri.mywebcommunity.org/wogaruxerepubelovujusura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pofaduxiruk.getenjoyment.net/diferencias_entre_caput_succedaneum_y_cefalohematoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nogeturafo.sportsontheweb.net/blood_bank_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gexopidikimo.mygamesonline.org/64960032899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejopazuzaguwoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815183/1786865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1f37eb64-a078-415e-a952-ce1ddeea4c56.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_111697e8a45a446dacbb0f76bd126e99.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dda5c79a-a75d-44d9-a006-48dec3bfe172.filesusr.com/ugd/115d6e_db87fd7e96f54916b772e5bb3e07ccc7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8a89c5bc-485b-4808-980c-66c60e8d9908.filesusr.com/ugd/834936_00fba9dcc58e4af3b12ad8884a39bc5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lobopekogolo.onlinewebshop.net/74429756908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/402c445c-d234-45e6-9103-247623a68c45/lefukuzajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58438e96-9979-4e7f-b91c-d2f42880a596/3063846487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea35543a-38da-4f12-b1ca-4693e4bb1d2c/crock_pot_pork_loin_cook_time_on_low.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d2fbbb5-13ea-441b-b2a3-9d2a34b8637e/44124458268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lelikerakovet.atwebpages.com/perfect_tense_exercises_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapizodipe.myartsonline.com/89757636006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezinolabebosod.atwebpages.com/74118746931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec679cc6-872a-45a8-b2fd-b1bc8f6ddb77.filesusr.com/ugd/d1d005_79409c4f90ea4c06a6eb51f37f145732.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://godosuluto.myartsonline.com/47678993024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c71f30bd-ddc4-480d-bd97-2043d2b3b41c/iata_dangerous_goods_regulations_2020_deutsch.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_off000116c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C5 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 01c4f4653d50d84ae5a4b017c7a4ba9051837eb1883119b0ec999229dffae22a
font_01_sfnt_off0001296d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1296D 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 76d3ddd0c50437987047d4f26985618f78f2ae72aded12c67a98d89003c3862a