Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873975a7836494f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-03-04 23:00:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 006c6cb789a303062238c5e06c1a4ad6 SHA-1: d7505b8c1007d2d7e500a6bb34828347449e1af4 SHA-256: 873975a7836494f32574856ed2b18cb52eb51e77eb7957d3cc93f2c55071e777
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=social+media+marketing+a+strategic+approach+2nd+edition+pdf+download'. Another heuristic flags it as a link farm, suggesting a broad attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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/strik?utm_term=social+media+marketing+a+strategic+approach+2nd+edition+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragejeli/bhhggzE/cozmo_toys_r_us.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xinefegepe/hgjdAgp/babaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xavexapoxiv/Rhb09dK/xudowegufabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xazarujokemus/75264720276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71586efc-5e00-49ad-9ee2-6ce0f9c7cb37/pandora_patcher_6.6.0_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topasirerawo.rf.gd/sample_skills_matrix_template_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuvitaros.epizy.com/42159876764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1e438cd7-6f3b-42ac-a97b-d13a75fa135b.filesusr.com/ugd/0c268c_755742c64f724bb2bd7197f271448011.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/113af355-50c4-49c1-8f56-0ebe81e2fc35/high_standard_double_nine_convertible_serial_numbers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8fbb87c-2cd9-41fe-9527-033accd4eae4/buy_fish_philosophy_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerozufigepa.rf.gd/najepewuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26674a11-f7e0-48b5-ad1a-f7e7aded5352/89174363873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a60b004-0234-43d4-a8ab-0743ea5305a0/wow_which_hunter_spec_is_best_for_dps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1cf095b7-1d29-4152-b82c-7733cf7ba0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/c1de29_63c86172e5d949aeb64800032816e383.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fobupozomorefiw.epizy.com/59367012698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenigaseze.epizy.com/5e_dex_barbarian_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://237a2310-9536-43ad-add1-fe73b840a51a.filesusr.com/ugd/8b319d_b0a468c9c37f4b15b63a8e4d4dd79260.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rorives/ziwofefoserakilone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fef4894e-41ce-4ddf-9158-5347b8a55ee8/lizosotoxetugefija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://44bb6ee8-a0fe-4f72-890f-0f0a2fec05cf.filesusr.com/ugd/b65acf_1d8015f1df1445af83c2e0a87de1f45f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/958bf158-bf8e-45b9-8ca0-98212b78ba7c/my_troy_bilt_edger_wont_start.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/240c7366-bc8e-43f5-bcd6-8fd5b121674a/libigubedozigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/210fe784-88cb-4c17-a045-2364dd5ff985/55297845701.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_off0000ffb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB0 5960 bytes
SHA-256: db556df1c8db84daff1c0e76d2026f9953f41835b5f5baed78bed4b1ed99c04d
font_01_sfnt_off000113e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E7 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 466c88c96975dc797737e441f670d7aae1baad2afc64511755edb198ad7165ab