Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3287eaa07394c64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-04-30 02:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7f32ccac605468b2934a74c66936cc72 SHA-1: 2ddcf9343b3a9e76de121d56cd88b20610534971 SHA-256: a3287eaa07394c647cbd281d7675584bde96029862d40206f6c2d352f56d0a6a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or deceptive content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=what+reading+level+is+this+is+where+it+ends PDF link annotation
    • http://ratedewu.scienceontheweb.net/kabemakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawugudumi.getenjoyment.net/15619505203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xasezufud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016907/6568067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medazuxa.mywebcommunity.org/space_truss_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kufomabid.mywebcommunity.org/55120846853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regutipedazuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071249/2052366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://risovokoxenixe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997247/fododiwanivevusidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totaduwuvib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969262/sojebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d896c2b7-539c-4146-aa8a-b39d26e096d8.filesusr.com/ugd/a98ecc_cb44fefaf1b9401e824c61c3f86747ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://87da31d5-d184-45e7-a456-0ad082c8bd65.filesusr.com/ugd/55e94a_d28986dba2594611a6d5ebc75fc834c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://satawakerexe.atwebpages.com/novuxoxexodasidilejole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9888cdd6-fb97-4724-b184-a2f418ef75a8/22826861175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kisimujuk/qual__a_lngua_mais_difcil_de_aprender_no_mundo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54ee4651-0688-4a3f-af75-b9e85ffb4379/51186090634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f4ce5ed-0f50-402a-8178-c217eb964ee5/pusujoxakolosijuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xokebore/19709281181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/galinikagopit/43368906942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7fca5364-97a1-4441-b76e-d2c429a59218.filesusr.com/ugd/735424_c8acb1061766417da2f4c00d02cecbe1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xoxaneral/gatsby_themed_invitation_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d38713d8-f9e0-49bf-8e72-3f46774ce551.filesusr.com/ugd/b3faf5_7905f31a34df432c9c64cdcae49b04ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fae45a77-140c-46a0-a346-9e4e75a1b0a0/fofixometivitizijana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49f62405-f40c-4a77-8935-d9bfe6aec1b0/milurebiviniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vapelurowar/fezobabogijutapatulamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxojuxafopuv/why_life_isnt_meaningless.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_off0000f0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E2 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 205c111ce72d6585c528ba0b491cb2d80674e482f82f0f1d2fa33232093399b0
font_01_sfnt_off000102d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D3 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 3863f34334f2a89b6f0c6d44d5c20076c8c05236f23d596291894b3474d02df9