Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad2d96342d65239a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-31 05:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: b3fccc3715dc179879eb9ed678d84608 SHA-1: 258ea87e0ec5d5e9add5fdfeecccb7eb12e9861a SHA-256: ad2d96342d65239abb734ca69778df346f69d176955f638cffc3727a74c52c25
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDFs hosted on various domains. The primary lure appears to be a search query related to WIC formula benefits, aiming to attract unsuspecting users. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a disposable link farm on potentially untrusted hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=how+many+cans+of+formula+do+you+get+with+wic PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jevamivuvugi/iHwgcxt/sdg_goals_undp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surumovosutimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134733284/notuna-ruwubupi-pabarazilomagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renixopofofof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486295/wefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijudunewofas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134696620/xaxokuwuzeme_fesonezo_kuneja_dofanoxusegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xumesapaxoku/rwJGVih/zafejijinemuluwozewarexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rapawaferew/ifieieC/nasa_mars_rover_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wazilisiko/dojcicv/human_resource_management_functions_ppt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fakivafepupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873921/0aa6958a5e7a800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dinelelulom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134308509/c5cad365d8bf93.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/2fcd2651-7db8-4dbf-a846-e5b23e4f3534/rajalajoruzobukugomeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e20d271a-53e3-41f9-9180-d6cd5f9fd148.filesusr.com/ugd/6cfc61_9be9927ed665417dadc32e9b1e8a79b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/37f1c2de-7989-4f82-9220-3a7613b4548c/liwazilewedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77b06258-5b0c-422d-913b-66bca857fcc1/why_is_there_a_red_light_flashing_on_my_smoke_detector.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa1c3fd9-6663-4b31-9ac0-68f605f91f37/how_do_i_mute_my_frigidaire_microwave_ffmv164lsa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/043057c7-9814-4517-ab32-a86947c06758/how_we_decide_lehrer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7955c167-ea44-401e-ae82-54555244546e/78674043647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c424e1b7-6f38-45f4-9e5e-0876c57338cd/what_is_step_2_in_aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/117e4935-a61c-48b8-869f-f0958a685667/zarozebaxasajiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b73e134d-e9c9-477e-9e35-1cb0378aca04/2011_dodge_avenger_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6355acba-a59a-455e-9d18-9fcc7b18269a/zatonimivipagojapini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ca3454e-05ac-49fc-8d00-644b1af7be3c.filesusr.com/ugd/8bf3fc_23f968765162404bb1a7845125c71c04.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF934 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 9d6780b9953442f35cb1ee928d0065c3be0e8724323f6248ae2a23749ab95c6d
font_01_sfnt_off00010c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C1D 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 58a396b4578f147136329134d46c40ec11f8598edb703a10aab15df071dc49ae