Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee4998418d0313a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 12:26:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d190f1d963356d0cc5de378e330397e6 SHA-1: 41fd2eeaccefbeb48cd78ad7ebdcc0bd9dfa1d9e SHA-256: 7ee4998418d0313a716fce3c9b808e081f36e56eea716497415fd741fa9942aa
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains and potentially malicious content, indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly suggest this malicious pattern. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for software downloads or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=camera+360+apk+download
    • http://laithub.pro/what_are_unique_girl_dog_namesrj6ys.pdf
    • http://medgaj.com/migatak4z2x1.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/valujoper/hfg2ig6/ruxidupo.pdf
    • http://lefibipefazefep.mypressonline.com/acidosis_respiratoria_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464065/normal_602166baf2048.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464525/normal_5fdfa3a80d0ba.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pasezateda/hc2Kpjb/rokevaxuxadopitodumevike.pdf
    • http://sodalabs.club/free_printable_business_cards_template_online1doph.pdf
    • http://yourdesk.website/classifying_numbers_venn_diagramy8mfm.pdf
    • http://matcobzor.ru/ap_stylebook_2018_onlinee9pgt.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vasinabew/l7gcihE/zowepepudodigiredanijijo.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496585/normal_5febb1fea03bc.pdf
    • http://xagugudel.sportsontheweb.net/lg_c9_max_refresh_rate.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://7c9e9c40-2b96-4f88-8065-b5ff5e495659.filesusr.com/ugd/3bfcae_f55b39b478b84058a1e2283ea5405650.pdf?index=true
    • https://86b7bb9a-6a0b-496c-a062-e8aa60c365d0.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_78d3e182a71d45cd90dc074f48f60af3.pdf?index=true
    • https://6fd4412c-3e6e-4f21-a9af-8137ffc6c0d9.filesusr.com/ugd/03469c_41dd93cfb98a46b98fbefed4840e5b47.pdf?index=true
    • https://3c3713de-992c-4571-92b4-00afcb8cb2c1.filesusr.com/ugd/9dbdb2_67121596927f41368ea9d1b9b98af400.pdf?index=true
    • https://436010f1-0dd7-4950-aec0-3bdf337573e8.filesusr.com/ugd/5a4c69_226d30345ca447a186aed91601d6d75c.pdf?index=true
    • https://2178e3ec-2e0a-46e0-af35-d8a6fdfeb21a.filesusr.com/ugd/c411cf_564dbfdad89d4cd09ac9eeb48593429d.pdf?index=true
    • https://03df18d0-0a94-4077-8b44-1f3cf8b7c870.filesusr.com/ugd/23a6c3_e78344caad0c40489f5a932c02a81167.pdf?index=true
    • http://givetupazowo.onlinewebshop.net/lusibozuvajada.pdf
    • https://3857ddc0-2b33-46ba-b4a8-ebef9b167687.filesusr.com/ugd/5cc0d5_6da04a6fd5ff46449c9ca114c55f28a9.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f79e.bin
73e8a90c104cf049855418127735f838b2248c02df2e0bb1b88750dcfe8b1a3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79E 3168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102e2.bin
b8626b9200d3c99d7e8a05755c48ce72ca385d3cd46b3895d08dccc1f5b4ce6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E2 5448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001155a.bin
6ac778ffe4d3c8473cd9b0fcec618e417bfd56f64d1dab66fa548b0697cd684c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155A 12500 bytes