Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7153cad41ada1990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-03-24 15:44:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: df65cf7ceddaef2d6ded365a8a2c13e8 SHA-1: bd0745c5d134db5cd230d31c62aeff2cb0affee7 SHA-256: 7153cad41ada199063bac98f0ecf5c8bafdade1feaa3b4a07fd792e04701da2a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or are part of a link farm. One of these links, https://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=monk+guide+pathfinder+kingmaker, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a malicious link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely as a lure for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=monk+guide+pathfinder+kingmaker In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459645/normal_6014eb53bb30d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474446/normal_601fdc5a098cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367622/normal_604fbe8a789ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagexonani.iblogger.org/tafowifojogokovisoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419644/normal_5ff5efa9b2e9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefusuteluvis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595196/f85926980eb2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369525/normal_6020012439d12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369773/normal_600b70c466730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giliwafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016831/jukigonejobol_reguwuzelemerav_kexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatatarulawug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134474158/pawigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457604/normal_604566860843b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razomidubijime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134395635/fiwavuj_rovub_pebifiset_kogolupetowawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2ffa788b-df2f-461f-b9c5-573bec542745.filesusr.com/ugd/374ce0_01ac6121fe4146a5b18645727218bac7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rozasazi.epizy.com/how_do_i_order_an_ikea_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ninazarila/71792930175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6ac5066-27fc-4e71-a07d-b30af50dfe8b.filesusr.com/ugd/934fc3_885b11f8797146e6bce6f81519534b57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://171e2b11-24ea-4535-acac-f971ec821c4b.filesusr.com/ugd/a07927_b53d7eba392a4d608477eb49f6b3a4c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sebunuzu/71071350758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xofukadebinomo.epizy.com/lekatekidezedozavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giverez.epizy.com/natejokekabugevulaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tawovojo/54653452135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuterijoze/nuraxosepozaz.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_off0000fd53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD53 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 1da07266a650425cae3ed0ba0ec3dd5cc6dfd0b5908e2975157f7f6fe29c2c42
font_01_sfnt_off00010f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F53 10864 bytes
SHA-256: e661ac4f06cd3091e7d44049a2cd3d8092f25bc06308d183f4b1560e75b2e71b