Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91e7455d02f19f03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-05-14 08:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 879328c0250cc9bf14f33c46adb3edac SHA-1: b57b7a5cdd6e0ce023e1a84d0c09fda9f44f90f0 SHA-256: 91e7455d02f19f03859cacbc0cbd83ca47dc18e36dd00e373cfefb76394b2a06
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content. While no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed for initial access via phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=top+speed+triumph+bonneville+t120 PDF link annotation
    • http://gukabibus.mygamesonline.org/23567106695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezasarasojid.mywebcommunity.org/oriflame_catalogue_oct_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujewazaxijaza.sportsontheweb.net/1938989673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taforojujutusig.mygamesonline.org/1570712370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rupazaduxil.mywebcommunity.org/70712179977.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/6143cf85-bfee-498e-a442-91ed658d5e2e/resumen_del_libro_el_color_de_mis_palabras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f227887-ba90-404f-a0c7-5679996ea1b8/2014_nissan_altima_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e26a4754-b21f-43eb-a4fe-d8736c0bedb9/81412253099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4cc3b97-044e-4d1d-9fd6-9f45b9318ead/tojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/426ede2e-b0ac-4630-a701-cdefe2da1ec0/96328081142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totefopige.atwebpages.com/zizunuvivikimaladiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02274cc9-8b57-4441-be19-e46c089ec46b.filesusr.com/ugd/f11b8f_5200f0e3cbda44e6817db204db22521e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/957d70d3-a340-460c-8a5e-29342b75ddea/bible_study_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d429d46a-6203-486b-8c9d-ede5597e1383.filesusr.com/ugd/419b00_268fd91146dc485f808553a531491306.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33e73cad-521c-47f7-8bd0-781cbe19e72e/duzaxikuwigewanepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1fecfd6a-a35b-45e7-9ef0-1ce48475a3a5/yamaha_01v96vcm_usb_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11c61fd1-1ea6-4f04-8001-168dca254603/wasigurumijalovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4d325c2-6401-4ac7-98ad-311bc5b28a80/fesowidibetetepofukumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/786dff38-e5b2-4c08-bd59-85c1c322f3b7/82077898250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a4c341d-9af7-4f89-b48a-1b926ad6ced7.filesusr.com/ugd/dd6616_e5e5559be4dc470eb04eb39162138a53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7920a853-f458-4dfc-a893-f50c3ed6f780.filesusr.com/ugd/fe7850_a9365c749dc743269df4e5026437d279.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0e72f3e-9b74-4f9a-b1b5-4d20e325fff8/canada_national_sport_alongside_lacrosse_word_craze.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_off0000ea28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA28 5464 bytes
SHA-256: a4b614dc3b1250c8113e56110d3622554b4961c9de8ac1baba07732767047706
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC99 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0e01578795375e5b433c5aae6ce17a90347ef72f41659a47d952325ef5d34f