Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f07d855cc916c8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-02-25 06:11:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 7d06fc8f98526887b4a56ea904d852dd SHA-1: 99f502df582fd3028207317808cc45a5f3316946 SHA-256: 9f07d855cc916c8c83903821da37d54eb9f45ca842182ef88658499946ddc808
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content. The primary intent appears to be driving traffic to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=how+big+is+30+meters PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/femelofep/fMQwcW2/86423761774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubosesizip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744628/1e23a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412895/normal_6004a5e536b42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gebitasixa/hhRhfdp/best_action_thriller_hollywood_movies_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fojenuf.iblogger.org/zaxopinoriwibesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujabupinoda.scienceontheweb.net/bose_universal_remote_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerikolobel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398187/eee2de98f6b88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komaxinatobofe.medianewsonline.com/dell_optiplex_9020_micro_i7_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://junumidutuzakox.getenjoyment.net/how_to_troubleshoot_a_thermostat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nawinirezuj/ifibhhu/wheel_size_bike_for_5_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dexasubu/8iezkii/guwitopizoworizulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vozaxodep/Niamhf3/10674408781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nobutowug/g7Ehdjj/auralux_online_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowimigijik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637135/672a49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367271/normal_6033adb908477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatudawo/vihXgd1/sibukitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vuriruzuminomu.epizy.com/lulevaruwijevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baverasoge.epizy.com/video_er_for_pc_32_bit.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_off0000e05c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05C 5264 bytes
SHA-256: e468040ad583996986e55caec9123c04ca08ac336ca0e3e5b955a9aad1deea5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF249 10272 bytes
SHA-256: c765f5a39bb69bf18368c24e54652caa688beec262f32f75f92153ddf54595c1