Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f5091308c07be8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a63ad27e7aa7fb99b2cdce7a5c306f86 SHA-1: de567a7fa5f1c55754350acd7616336bee9c524f SHA-256: 88f5091308c07be8f30f8318cf47200fd98d2db950b6678bca596207b7c94186
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a high number of embedded links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of outbound links is a strong indicator of malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 4

  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+android+apps+2020+uk PDF link annotation
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabavejibokujabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/9699559116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/gusedaruxowedabikuwajurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lizhechem.com/upload/files/22074404889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gunabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/88031204810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/92899750790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/62049269794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109060305326942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vugixiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/195368356613c13d482586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/7200720726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg1pamnp4cr8gj4b8g27h97spv/suvakopabilugebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/69267238329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/userfiles/file/80618886471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/56044655013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epponline.com/mentorfinancial/page_images/file/tamela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terawasatorodolemejiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/15373298157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xoxagajokejadaguneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/41564739649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fuvutukesarudabuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ebe131909---47009994549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/59962029117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvssteelex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papifatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/kedozivonikavawof.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF109 10932 bytes
SHA-256: a72cd10cfa7ebf05ef441cd08b60b33bb5c55e4ccb207adfcfd96ecd0146821f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A5 17772 bytes
SHA-256: fd0ff0d099880e9144d6adb4bb7d7f5cadc253cfce195c91fc7a55c9d5e08ede