Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35d4753aa9102f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-04-03 11:32:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: f06ac492bd3f1c5d542eb1e25ded529a SHA-1: 74fdd346eee019ea390cbc448f4f52bae9a795a5 SHA-256: a35d4753aa9102f67cd169015e591fb1f686f06fe533799938f2b5bb6909b950
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=banking+and+financial+awareness+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sugumujozik/vjhjbhc/avabel_lupinus_advanced_class_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodiniwotud/hcjdomi/bloomsburg_university_of_pennsylvania_acceptance_rate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464311/normal_5ff8fd2f6cf5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454545/normal_600ba5a370528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fufejezonodim.mywebcommunity.org/warhammer_40k_8th_edition_army_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389107/normal_6038c30986a70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378834/normal_603c2c7d38e1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462096/normal_5fefdb7e221c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degimogug.mypressonline.com/rubisona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368229/normal_601e8f60a4a01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guparob.mywebcommunity.org/my_friend_dahmer_book_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fifotadog/Vhchahh/labanuxufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405895/normal_601fbc0c26b96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378613/normal_606799091a48e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dixejetafap/s6hfDja/camel_racing_dubai_january_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zomulusiku/ughjjjf/pet_hospital_near_me_24_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492240/normal_606369c482d11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muvotugi/ggES1rA/dororo_anime_2019_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lomigakorak.getenjoyment.net/gitesaziwogukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raxuzuvuluf/qvhb7zC/tivasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dekorasenu/akkhajd/canvas_student_guide_peer_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xewamejixolefaj/how_to_say_test_in_korean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mefadedosuw/33210520361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xonobijikivo/chrome_for_android_2._3._6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motuvogipe.onlinewebshop.net/tendinitis_aquiliana_tratamiento.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE23 5124 bytes
SHA-256: d33f46daaf8d32a8727559609ecb47c5cf17209103b279fb64f9592d5d777fc1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAC 11060 bytes
SHA-256: d727d658fbfd9baa8a58d1cf3fb274009186a09e0cf12aaf362cf6b7039cf2d5
font_02_sfnt_off00013553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13553 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361