Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afa1f74591db8171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-11-06 23:16:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 46ab93004d5f46f2ebfba814caa61006 SHA-1: 705ca6ba1ee24914d775fc084aed8c19eefde14b SHA-256: afa1f74591db8171250773e89be5cb3428a08043657662ba9b9601c37504554c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest potential for redirecting users to malicious sites or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://trafffi.ru/123?keyword=sort+the+court+unblocked+games+99 PDF link annotation
    • https://dowikonusinewe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374018/kefajonima-dasagixoxigosa-xudewera-xujotomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikojeril.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999271/9698626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muxosafexokole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134485240/judezovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satobolusiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398412/xunitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notupazepikinis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134382888/9030630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvofazomegudej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134329778/5c315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366033/normal_5f875e1da7883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://julasunanuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134308365/tetokefukemorebimele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jepupuwupojuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481076/buvazamozajuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368760/normal_5f8fd9ba1149f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tulejimukun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134399478/2635360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixaworone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871871/wakubaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuwenivavubujer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437756/fe4859358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zewabugajumo.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/30274550643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuzunujatipi.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/50453417444.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_off000048f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48F9 5816 bytes
SHA-256: 982177185b6a7529e746c46182c3393e3067aac88bf47ce23031202ddd94d29b
font_01_sfnt_off00005c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C92 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 8a55066ffcc98fd7755b5d72ad51730dd64351f3d8bffa769b11e2aaf151194e