Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7956289c0963328f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.8 KB Created: 2020-12-16 00:29:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3cf028f35f724de5cbe5aba460c3a7e9 SHA-1: 9de2cc035800f88c6d7acb3b04fef21d81e218e7 SHA-256: 7956289c0963328fed5a49279903883f52a96ece921ceacd4ab9d384592c599b
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the 'SEO LINK FARM' heuristic indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://trafffe.ru/123?utm_term=mopar+nationals+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370778/normal_5fbde67b13419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420013/normal_5fbe318a3c873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dowikonusinewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374018/vifitutuzufibenawuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevaluxuduta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502983/jipirom_zanipiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takotowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356266/1541430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405654/normal_5fc56db320401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobewesepujub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303403/9452866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dirigesibujov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969991/52943516b6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc527a3c6229360ecc88336/t/5fd67a12313c42342b90d4e0/1607891474751/7843016275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0052111f6a4198480c96b/t/5fc2af8808845d0924e1fab4/1606594447284/hydronium_ion_concentration_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xipavir/95246897482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vutame/52956649838.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_off0000c027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC027 5092 bytes
SHA-256: ea9df95cd939f13db6691197b6cb47d6788c25e99b1ce8edef439c06f0c0a8ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000d18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18B 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0c9a9f0446136ae879ec18147f8bc720f841a7c67487bef9de34888a789e3f