Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78c0ad243a9c1674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-11-09 04:51:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: ce11ea7239da347207535394ddfafeb0 SHA-1: 9d2c61b2999cfd66bb39868aa6e05285b1ac8648 SHA-256: 78c0ad243a9c1674f5afa4a1cecd36c29da52febfe12e315bf8dbd6851836880
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://traffset.ru/123?keyword=how+many+core+electrons+does+se+have PDF link annotation
    • https://rabifupokuwu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/6792893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371800/normal_5f8cbfb62e072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://nelijonex.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/livugegonuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gewisetug/brill_s_new_pauly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevosaxovib.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/fizimobaruweboratiweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigikomi.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/dobatadenelomamefetebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavoduruset.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/89005171619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://disabuwipe.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/48836793621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denuberoram.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/sidiluvasogowanupan.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_off00005cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CCA 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 69403319f9486ac3c04705dae541e04e4ef20b200e21f6827471f37ce85a630d
font_01_sfnt_off00006f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F09 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 66aab6bd85a08be310a3a804a03cba143ba8351d412630a3a3a23d4d6a08bbff