Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fa840db05122a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-04-10 13:37:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 22f0fa7781f9263d2a0cd7ffa6efad3f SHA-1: 472f07dc6aaac4792487672924e0b1d8a7a1d7f8 SHA-256: 8fa840db05122a4424a4144d55330a0d7bcf0a9df6d500961e0acc2996e29fba
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with several heuristics indicating malicious redirectors and link farms. One critical finding points to a link to `https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=best+sat+math+prep+book+2019`, which is identified as a malicious redirector. Another high-severity finding highlights an invisible link to `http://loginwithfb.site/90015212062v0gdv.pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document's structure suggests it's designed to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to phishing sites or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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=best+sat+math+prep+book+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://mekuwomusaxonod.22web.org/49852325070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koteyarn.moscow/key_concept_2.2_the_development_of_states_and_empires_quizletic56p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tersq.space/relaxing_music_2020_app15vzx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godulonu.22web.org/boxuvaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loginwithfb.site/90015212062v0gdv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://civiliscmq.online/fexejadireajzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzroslyh.net/trio_axs_4gyad3y.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/2461a817-0868-4253-93c3-705813f2f830/how_to_say_commedia_dellarte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vokamaluxofom.epizy.com/histology_and_histopathology_case_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/724cd794-3019-4ff0-8578-1056520ff2b1/wentworth_by_the_sea_restaurant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muxoduxomupaja.epizy.com/dremel_4200_collet_change.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6440a9f6-5e82-4153-977b-4ffe9374ec4a.filesusr.com/ugd/7182f3_c21bbbdbbb374a3c9f8538a352a337c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://755d026c-fd58-4633-9ca9-8af24261f473.filesusr.com/ugd/4622eb_f9a213ae92824af0b80e0b44f5c029a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f6e2a16f-d004-42cd-8f17-0463e090774c.filesusr.com/ugd/c70c35_8912480a6da34fd48dad912caf05f4bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80d716ad-a663-4194-b427-f5ce9caecd2a/xexozurimuloxuwefubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fe5da38-d12d-4f7b-b9f7-1250f73cb91a/norton_anthology_of_american_literature_shorter_9th_edition_vol_1__2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fopekexu.epizy.com/brand_guidelines_logo_positioning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4e4301d6-cc9a-4939-960a-6b497c1efea6.filesusr.com/ugd/d78803_7e364969ee1444ef913f2ea46ef1e298.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3d3b31fc-6152-41c7-b1d4-a4af3afcce63.filesusr.com/ugd/3f8d85_4762580c0d8849be85cab07523f45806.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2487661d-2cae-4977-9281-93c0c9a7571f/acurite_meat_thermometer_00994w_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e82c114d-0645-4cd6-9ef6-5a8a38b9a900/norton_anthology_of_poetry_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00a8e8ad-c662-46ca-9111-29b34416ade1/tezuje.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_off0001112d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112D 5764 bytes
SHA-256: 96976aa96c12d648cb7ac1cb293563aeb45b3b43a32b61f0b2e3b3909f59b209
font_01_sfnt_off0001249f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249F 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5ce468bfe0c15691398b12645db064d85dd02723ac5640d5ff3b2c7ea5c5400f