Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714f92bc56577152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-03-27 11:41:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 6003a9245f4e4c807b13ae2f14e26625 SHA-1: ab24f4aca880a95179a5a40a286462969bbf4573 SHA-256: 714f92bc56577152f57c90d7742a45a1b7d71d89c704dcd158e6b78e0ec8871d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://gimoguvi.ru/award?keyword=business+case+study+analysis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://esagafow.fun/46400676353rp1bk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jarebomu/ggiPoje/81764629759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everydayy.fun/paraiso_travel_descargar_completozk0xu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kokademesuz/iihokHV/jagajanumudimiwogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valigulepi.scienceontheweb.net/freehand_outline_and_model_drawing_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasotaluvose/QjhVzgc/chicken_biryani_wallpaper_cave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zurefaxenov/chdhgjj/10253129998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miraroki/3hdRC9W/buku_akuntansi_dasar_kelas_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuwiwetidajin.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_use_procreate_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://30c74dc1-c3f2-4e71-8253-1ec84f3b94e1.filesusr.com/ugd/b8c6fa_030aac5df42944c8b5fe447236595982.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cbb9655c-b60d-4095-8c1c-bb5f9a2903c5.filesusr.com/ugd/4dd980_abbf0dc7db8c4fec9fa3d42299e1d8dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://87c8fc71-818b-4167-bf0d-2ac3bc49ffd1.filesusr.com/ugd/f9d4cd_26beeb3c21a64d5c82224c38de864d54.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6a9ecc2b-05c3-4056-8705-773ae6be8cdd.filesusr.com/ugd/7a359d_eda489cbb1a44829b54f4bcfa0bc78c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acf0bb14-28ad-4241-bba6-30862688f049/larry_david_net_worth_vs_jerry_seinfeld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bb74f61c-7045-47bf-9a7e-968101ee373e.filesusr.com/ugd/81ef4b_05b2f5be12214c90a46b74de2f3a8a9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d75bbb92-b0e4-4b50-83e6-2443e695523b.filesusr.com/ugd/bc73b9_c94bfab22b6b4bfca34fcb66fb0dd500.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48ee963a-fd7c-45a3-825b-29c07342fb92/jawuvozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://535a9070-e28a-464b-adc5-c02ad08be00b.filesusr.com/ugd/9df9d6_033991ccd28c45199f208a71a4f2114b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://65f7c47b-6fa2-4aed-9649-637438a88329.filesusr.com/ugd/8fb471_408b4aefbf484923994cc0dd5f491738.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48da466b-6fd6-4ea9-9008-751eae35bd15/ribena.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_off000109dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DD 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 5ddb9bd76e17752c3d265682863edf9c8d1d2fe731440f61fb87ce9ee67f479f
font_01_sfnt_off00011bb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB6 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 29eb6a11f70b07371d6a3885a6abc24b0fd9586dc430e7870ea2384c106a1993