Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a47c5d48fbe7140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b625fe83dda427270f8bae251b39b5df SHA-1: 7bc7f50cdb0f3562259b44f0f577786e72d5af8b SHA-256: 6a47c5d48fbe714014af1e30c95638e184371ce94dabb964b53d8dfe0f4205d1
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly for SEO manipulation or redirecting users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6906

Heuristics 3

  • 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
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+generate+pdf+programmatically PDF link annotation
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/zixepukopanewudodimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fillaracingacademy.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosinopitegewasukikiluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/12402166140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44564831572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/78123742749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/zidadejaluvoxigexugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52649550373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/49792526260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spotiverify.com/ci/userfiles/files/89808671442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/vuxuwagemino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/minakugalumadazotegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxujuligenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/jaweluresiwupusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/24477937506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7139162779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/53290755069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/50818435093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/naposurerigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af73c3d15690d71460c28e9358dbcf57/59435786238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institutdesante.org/userfiles/file/27879491248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/14491846314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/4263219101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krcatikyonetimi.com/userfiles/file/60630664666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulofesuzigopinoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF3 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 6f0e8d702e836742ec279b7fd725a71c4c42517abd776294eccc1f710976662e