Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90162b17bfd3d6c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-03-21 02:22:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: facae372029e85e6218dc17ddeecf0ca SHA-1: 9698fedd190b4ee986e09d3da7675c38fa291fab SHA-256: 90162b17bfd3d6c9bed860264b9305ff3e13e518cf6e897475a5943f988403ab
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely part of a link farm. One URL, 'https://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=2666+pdf+ita', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's structure and content suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites.

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/wix?keyword=2666+pdf+ita In PDF document text
    • http://remont-kholodilnikov.website/conan_exiles_gameplay_guideide51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/molodomo/idr5Hig/2717207552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486036/normal_60506d72a9c96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bixatavafut/ghds9dK/gakatubifabarilopirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bamosabubesi/ghgRijs/bamitol_gel_reductor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pevejotomoma/bxghhDM/flight_simulator_2018_pc_game_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412778/normal_5fce166949e77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462694/normal_5fd85d8271aee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://construt.site/11984524209ydzui.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368982/normal_5fc5ada4c94e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kirinitaxuk/RMYNij8/1044345006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instas.site/how_to_get_paid_dividends_ukk72om.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wexovezojab/hcciciv/open_house_sign_in_sheet_remax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pigexebobe/igvfibg/excel_vba_list_sheets_in_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f84ffea9-2755-49c2-9cb5-47ca8b55fe65.filesusr.com/ugd/0adedf_3cdd18de9e1b4b64ac5c1845916d5839.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26fa5740-f33e-4af1-8e41-1e00e1ea0265/how_long_do_you_have_to_respond_to_a_12b6_motion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4c03504-5c51-4999-a1f7-4ccc4c643878/genujawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d0fd53c2-66a5-49f7-a942-a4bfc50892a3.filesusr.com/ugd/11baf9_2d8b43d62cb743dfba38a79d45f52981.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://30c74dc1-c3f2-4e71-8253-1ec84f3b94e1.filesusr.com/ugd/b8c6fa_ca056926459b4d8590d4083cab2535fc.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_off000115ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BA 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfa23209d4b962aee360f549697adc4ec4a6fcdb5d6cfd1c054b1a08b44e744
font_01_sfnt_off00012693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12693 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 6aaaff1a447a1f807e661ed192042bbc9ab0bdcc0d50c515cab2d2880dcf5571