Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f3c8299255054d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.6 KB Created: 2021-01-30 16:13:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 807455e51d0afbf9d853e1646fa58ff2 SHA-1: 0f38d7ca2ff2f65098b45fa50f8de8608ffabd4b SHA-256: 7f3c8299255054d83793e99c9d7e4f1081c0e31964122d8a1733e320fa4954fa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external URIs suggests it's intended to redirect users to potentially harmful content or facilitate further compromise. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and heuristics point to a malicious intent to distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://seumenha.ru/123?utm_term=heat+transmission+formula PDF link annotation
    • http://copriyghtconfirmed.com/1725485163dd8n9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iclod.tech/adventure_escape_mysteries_trapmaker_3_chapter_3hs959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightram.net/11th_bipartite_settlementflqe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lolajelor/ibzA3jb/speak_to_the_manager_meme_dog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/domuduxuro/hfic0hb/diwawavasetebime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tororukiwuri/jivgcjb/41188913909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicaitalia.website/passport_size_photo_maker_online_free_downloady2870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kneeksi.ru/bkash_customer_care_number_savarivwyj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roflan.site/74560535882we4t3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dikejupovavobu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069859/xowowop_xutirij_jubenozufuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmgameplan.com/burda_magazine2uk9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zisujidixa/2iecDha/super_sonic_the_hedgehog_coloring_pages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinofebew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305957/wufifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigma24invest.online/pinebozuwonijofatempn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nukevokisoget.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711970/3888542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runolive.com/83436270572vz9o5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstgramhelpcopyright.com/ruxawowu8y7md.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fajoliteve/giDidAS/set_browser_minimum_width.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-cam-v2.club/42011488525nrecp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ygrash.website/32045953464i5xpb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000183c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183C9 2884 bytes
SHA-256: 72ba379c62e02a3aa2e2dc317558e22e639c17f36d52d5df984945efe4d355e7
font_01_sfnt_off00018e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E08 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8ce40b62cb81a9873c0117490c716cd5e50205d54b018a1368cbb80071922f
font_02_sfnt_off00019e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E7F 15516 bytes
SHA-256: fcde0805a961d81d14412ec7efbfe627b2ee432ecddf9d5755a86bff0dd9875d
font_03_sfnt_off0001d1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D1A0 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 9813eed971a9bc6f1e13383862fe1921932891b9439e70fefea7f237948cd44c