Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63dfce0576bfcd1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:14:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cdab3ee3d6cf2c9d48e19ece983ad287 SHA-1: 151cc3e3417bbb565dfb4b696ddd291e6a630c7f SHA-256: 63dfce0576bfcd1ef935230e44ba466c7db1773f577224999df1a5e85323c580
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure with multiple disposable hosts and UTM parameters points towards a phishing or redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a lure to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/sodafikegiwos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/bipivumixorinovixusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/76213354608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiptep.ru/file/fenagozejitakejipeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/dezawegikolafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/54705351413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/36975489286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_CA18BA03051B34E7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/jilijarinetegadeposibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/80325535059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63798333961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/36582220616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/towaweriwapugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nk-sostanj.si/files/file/sisatopefexilemabaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/75151981014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/93048202168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ea986b223---logenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazekunatuvofubulepatuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76498722111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88899620460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinezotoxodituvetonarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvizek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64580438410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210910071020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/pegajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcbeautytrainingschool.com/userfiles/file/puxusitipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+emails+on+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF515 18412 bytes
SHA-256: d6211279a1bc16cedef526f27a996dc75ddda3b24cac1771474ef968117cae17
font_01_sfnt_off00012519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12519 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D30 10672 bytes
SHA-256: e1d8ff20f92896ccdd7578a214f3a1b6f4c8f16becb46921ffc12f2b4e94f36c