Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f3d5c4cdde734c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-03-30 00:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 006b7cd1bcf848444e0f13084484e200 SHA-1: 1792530cb9c1c4c1ec7ab1688eb5ebdfdc6c9266 SHA-256: 7f3d5c4cdde734c005a09b0ea84bf4941b5687ce16307bd746fcb471553befb1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://golowaki.ru/123?utm_term=carnivore+animals+images PDF link annotation
    • http://bolawixefop.mygamesonline.org/education_should_be_free_for_everyone_argumentative_essay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jigapenufi.medianewsonline.com/traditional_catholic_prayer_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarijarasojud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332778/nizase-pifemowazunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pumejikugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969330/mepasosetememe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadosixajobirug.mygamesonline.org/tegazixeboduwuxewulejitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lodazojamuva/bodybuilding_training_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://874c0fd6-92eb-497b-905f-dc7ca4d2e287.filesusr.com/ugd/5ca7d4_bbc449c4397e4c16b55094bd330fc7dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zijivevip/english_film_song_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://16564176-4c62-44d7-82e3-1dea6b832d73.filesusr.com/ugd/5e57cf_f6eec94fd3a04fc891de0327d7cd8f20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lajovaputap.myartsonline.com/management_information_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbba0f06-1911-40f0-8c80-a2638c7f81cc.filesusr.com/ugd/b13fd1_a69a0931c8074c0d9d4dfb9a65903e3c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6da1ed31-7a22-45b0-8bc5-463d376071ee.filesusr.com/ugd/29fbaf_e49af6ab81c840e7a9483eac93cfdcf8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dda5c79a-a75d-44d9-a006-48dec3bfe172.filesusr.com/ugd/115d6e_7eabe8def6a34274a3e9172f6ce00e81.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d5fec37-5936-4ae8-8938-03a86e982f09.filesusr.com/ugd/d4da64_8335b02c75a242b39281b0e3127c866e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e8f98835-b194-42a5-b43f-fe2f29920dd6.filesusr.com/ugd/bf650e_17da323a3a4a466a883bc2ed8167ee82.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://robefowoved.onlinewebshop.net/case_study_bronchial_asthma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pokorevalaxex/33602263255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f6e2a16f-d004-42cd-8f17-0463e090774c.filesusr.com/ugd/c70c35_9106d2650b1e41b2977020ee7ab4c186.pdf?index=trueIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF232 4796 bytes
SHA-256: 72bfa4cf7e1655d7b61646d11581a36b9a7a1df487b81884a4d68b058fc3160d
font_01_sfnt_off0001025e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025E 11652 bytes
SHA-256: 3b2c6f4d196b60e544982bda8050bcf139c8277e2f3c638b82e7a0dd81e6587c
font_02_sfnt_off000129e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3