Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d207ddd599e267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-05-17 03:41:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2ca3a99f96ebcfd6479dcb5476f1401d SHA-1: b15783ec42bd578db6d662777a0e3c20526f01f3 SHA-256: 88d207ddd599e2671528416eb87c8767a140684eddb4e3e3a842c35910964509
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests a potential for redirecting users to malicious sites or for SEO manipulation purposes. The document body contains garbled text and metadata related to wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was programmatically generated.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=used+scag+mowers+for+sale+in+ohio PDF link annotation
    • https://pulosonimoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739093/07bef8da5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421778/normal_60293601c00e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufisifarugevap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595961/weluzumoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikudirag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040407/daxosubivakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wafasojudo/i1Yibjg/uk_flag_vector_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimivisimobud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901817/8653833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dugitesabisaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134392589/xupegozomebubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445544/normal_60045fa68404c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saboxiwago/jjxhf0T/72257739884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuxiwapanipajof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969705/136439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fagutefoxod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235025/c98846ed5c0d628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mapetidul/2VI4jcv/droid_depot_app_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokunotewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314966/9597021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doliwejivus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353379/nafabuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404108/normal_6031bd269f64b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467032/normal_60438fba4e8b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4498330/normal_5fddba94b793e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vufisolepu/jgkifeb/nagugofikowotokakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d9226533-59f4-4737-ae77-cfa9cdee5378.filesusr.com/ugd/d7c203_526378e7af774ac0b3e8b53adf312ef1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e8267f5-6380-480e-ad72-df526eaefc07.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe325_61f6c79bb17a433fb93247f596cadf7e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xeropizuwe/maths_tricks_book_in_hindi_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nagev/56093848487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurafoga/jupamirurosowuvufivaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e691ad07-92dc-45fa-af10-8929b4045ede.filesusr.com/ugd/87b9a8_c58bdbed0a3842b7817028fc2ea6bfe8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tajimipojimo/video_games_2021_ps4.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_off0000dfb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB9 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 21b52120e56226b8d38d806c0fe87ab3a25e5987641a490b87e0e2e23715775a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF260 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 6b14f891617b1a5bb86c67995699a936737a1b70ab05e2d46aa527a225d2199e