Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 683b35d46103cc64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-03-25 06:10:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1d1645a0d799326efca29079b2c06e54 SHA-1: 24726d545b60d1b86505a4cb4b60ba39fbdf1a7c SHA-256: 683b35d46103cc6461acbc57a97d861b2a2e9b8b185698ec1173f16ccec8fb24
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are on disposable hosting and utilize UTM parameters, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://mezovuduv.ru/strik, which is likely used to redirect the user to further malicious content or a phishing page. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=trigonometry+all+formula+pdf+download+in+hindi PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372086/normal_5fd7b76a3e30a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kefuvavubuxega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164002/8d447371b620b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santecmb-sarl.com/xofagetki2y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarokinsta.site/jersey_mikes_mini_turkey_sandwich_calories8rs5r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474997/normal_602831eb10206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374198/normal_5fd692dd238e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmbmarketing.agency/asm_metals_handbook_volume_2b86at.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384316/normal_60029e624e388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunekapizo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969144/zadero-tebovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bejasesazopo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134512805/301c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408476/normal_60340df6232cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f0b712e-ff34-435e-95f5-1763bc25e3e6/wordly_wise_book_6_answer_key_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a81fbabf-e753-4c3f-9107-a0d906e72218/41129897783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0298ac73-cd49-4730-9dba-d7e751550fe4/list_three_child_centered_method_of_teaching.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://de461234-8179-4892-b46d-67dc01ae00af.filesusr.com/ugd/69bbc5_af3bf0963a4a43d4a2337c7e796208a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/919dd512-c0e4-47ed-b3ac-74de84e17d16/what_hotel_was_used_to_film_the_shining.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce55c564-0e79-48ac-bd91-a034cff8554b.filesusr.com/ugd/bd1fc0_fd1c07958c894e359bff7aac93590291.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0f1d4d7-c24d-40a6-8e17-111eeefb14fc/whats_in_the_night_sky_tonight_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b3ef7ab-15a7-48a9-817a-21b77d557bb5/kolisiwekeloxuzamugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c0b4601-0a9e-4761-b4b9-d55abf3df6d5/hamilton_beach_4_slice_toaster_oven_-_stainless_steel_31401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://041aa876-b65b-432c-96c0-58c8b295a4e4.filesusr.com/ugd/90d19e_2b0584cd7ee34b9ea31005206ebfee93.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1da2d257-ce9a-4a07-87ed-e31bb9624b00/game_show_network_app_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a29eac22-5e9b-4000-8c6d-9d5a3d75d052/sword_art_online_games_release_dates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2751ab64-8a1a-46ee-a20e-82104c93c681/zofiluwufagakow.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D67 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 4614735e27515d0d9281f5eb2d330cdf845a647a5ed8409f60d1daf2dab47299
font_01_sfnt_off00011fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBF 3720 bytes
SHA-256: a7c194c348f4bc26aad06ae1fa1eadf76503a3aca856ff80314c3d87a816eea9
font_02_sfnt_off00012b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B1F 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 4b777a2f050a40cc82b2d595ec0886b56b4e73980609240c8c388adf4e7d44c3
font_03_sfnt_off00014edd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EDD 15080 bytes
SHA-256: 040ec1c8736d19817c5a185217f23f163c81d1ce1e8bef560ec1959c67fbbcb6