Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90796e3662b62a1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-05 15:36:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5266e393405baa33bc3156095dd312b2 SHA-1: 557c841f39c20870cc18846defb4aa34be2cbbf5 SHA-256: 90796e3662b62a1fc82f36486c6a344c772d43e5031648ee6247e35fe7d9bead
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to decrypt or access a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scans. The embedded URL 'https://allytemp.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+use+hydra+to+brute+force+password' is likely part of this lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://allytemp.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+use+hydra+to+brute+force+password PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465263/normal_5fc9da7fcb204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xokapajutubesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134730315/4ce9ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virerulifig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407283/dotikuka-fejufe-mitoxafeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459777/normal_60617a94d5afe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowemubunewoseg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739536/c84cb3c3a22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mopotepawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738720/jekilaviwaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodanopo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408738/perimegedisisosivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nukuxim.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144487395/sajasepikevukavugufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/94ab44ac-64eb-4e13-a124-6dc0d1136a8c/melunabedepemotadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b8b2afc-ce9d-40fa-ab06-f8194a050ab7/zibebonipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89b73283-3e95-4df3-9fe1-a0430049c0b1/installing_diono_radian_forward_facing_with_seat_belt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guronavageba.pbworks.com/f/fuwejorojemawitenifinaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fodorafirig.pbworks.com/f/93818650384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufukamapaf.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144499029/ejercicios_de_programacion_lineal_entera_mixta_resueltos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69263a4b-7236-448d-8741-d751c3c2a2ab/23146875699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b44a659-1760-4172-875d-f0b9824b775c/tuposajagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe08e684-df35-450f-a65b-d06056057ef9/2710228644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lipovosufuk.pbworks.com/f/94348491528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuwaxiper.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144506490/lobuvavexujijibi.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAB 4564 bytes
SHA-256: c0e7ffcfb65cc2094767c81cc814fc53059c39b9bb37a536832a4dd6460ee1a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000efa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA4 5504 bytes
SHA-256: c66347422caf16d3e305c1ed5c46d0224e05b9bebd7dcf94a4f356b78cfedb82
font_02_sfnt_off0001026a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026A 19712 bytes
SHA-256: 59575bed47598d426af83b79095361ef9172d7f2f078ed70264b258b113d063e
font_03_sfnt_off0001347c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1347C 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4d3acf91f526bc97b8381a83ee3a9e9d785f708e9dc2ef7166bcd687faf7aa