Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859faff5b208b653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.8 KB Created: 2021-03-11 16:59:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: eb3d2fcf67d2d26475ba8252e48deb0b SHA-1: eefa149afc585d06ad1cbf3421cbba885e45d056 SHA-256: 859faff5b208b653303a76533accc6ae91a330dc9ca1507a3e4f5ec8dfeacb27
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF documents hosted on disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one of these links directs to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content via the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/123?utm_term=all+video+er+professional+opera In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mogujawogo/idVyafw/2020_nba_mock_draft_best_shooters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4406241/normal_600772813958c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstop.site/54551238507aula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapegidaboxisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527108/7246738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490264/normal_6044dea611891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/demexadol/icfheUQ/dragonfly_landscape_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365649/normal_601cb9fde7b48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tedigedubemi/qpghhh6/synthesia_full_version_free_download_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batigagonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134774980/72fa74dad8900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liziruji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380663/zoguruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zathkatow.xyz/zemuwetevuwewilazuzosub4v0id.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tibusikexotojuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012355/purulev_midenopaxuj_kovuduwujupani_gexuwipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasporte1.fun/pokemon_pixel_character_creatoroibdg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416305/normal_60379b7c06526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozegujulukov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134459046/nesojawunurenakixoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c9ab100-55d1-43d1-9a49-26c9cc3f1020/tesowinusapazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c183b790-cb34-49aa-848e-1a9f2b14dda3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_e8526d1925c8459782ffdc8a3d4289ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/679b6ffe-06e2-4676-9404-ae75966bc114/navy_seal_museum_fort_pierce_florida_directions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://22e365c6-0853-42e1-82f8-83473bf9c0bf.filesusr.com/ugd/217d68_96e0304decf0484a94c6aa58497a87e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d7179dab-c972-4501-9f4a-16044ca71e84.filesusr.com/ugd/434f74_bd4ca681a4f44ec0ae86136a5ac623d3.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001686c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1686C 5084 bytes
SHA-256: fee1b0ea5945db97c6be62483c36ec0a321a7964c4488777fccae49b8265ae6c
font_01_sfnt_off000179ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179CE 16324 bytes
SHA-256: de14d949e446ba5eef9c3e75fcb7eae0a561054466673bbf07d1852e1c332aab