Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4b0a6c43c3b6a68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-03-09 14:55:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a0fc2d65b3da257cd5656fe6c8cc3de2 SHA-1: 56c6ef212e93b3383499c901103d85023a48d698 SHA-256: a4b0a6c43c3b6a6891f9c1ab9028d2e81d226faecb8837673baf9bb8e74d664a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The document body, though malformed, contains text related to "Post concussion syndrome treatment guidelines" and the authoring application "wkhtmltopdf", indicating a deceptive lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external URIs supports the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

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://jumiwimov.ru/123?utm_term=post+concussion+syndrome+treatment+guidelines PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gaxokakijefe/jdDghCx/20256833195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/peferitukofa/gdhRieg/pemesipikarunolaxibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanolenka.xyz/xiwowiw5ajgs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-copyright-confirms.com/29923711454qlkzh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zuzikewed/aHjjcgi/inotia_4_warrior_stats_and_skill_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dagufiwus/hhehgXr/jatoxumiwivisuwibedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://witowufagefalob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738848/tigivarodolusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jowapezo/VvhagcN/dhoom_restaurant_surrey_bc_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fegibidizog/ierMibJ/71911260388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igonlinesupport.com/how_much_do_sports_illustrated_models_get_paid13i5h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wadupaxi/pZQhbja/hill_climb_racing_2_apk_dinheiro_infinito_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenewonunawof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740417/gexirufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naziwixolagu/djcjimF/guide_for_video_buddy_movie_app_video_downloading.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://47ab6ce1-aee6-4086-a8e7-31fe393d2411.filesusr.com/ugd/afbef4_c423e17c39104cf4bd822dee19b1a95b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://30cc9e9c-6145-4029-bfdc-d0561bdb3a10.filesusr.com/ugd/0dcf4b_fcd4cc9057b642799c3e531f44b6e89c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92a49161-3c64-4ea5-9449-a8fa994475db/isentropic_efficiency_of_reciprocating_compressor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c82e7c1a-8b23-4b4f-beec-d579c00bcd9e/rofavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ddedb0e-b7b0-41c9-a8bc-c018bd0e6e4c.filesusr.com/ugd/70094d_2b4155e04b994926884a014342b7ca5b.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000fa03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA03 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 3f640739e097194110a4573e00b7ef5009a2002621771f7e5e22dffd6672f7d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BBC 10964 bytes
SHA-256: e9136853b2205d375cdbe00eb6c47dca9da22788b922d227b47d95944d681154
font_02_sfnt_off000130f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230