Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b928aaf3d4d0096a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-02-14 20:17:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2677bfe4e1f547573cb0ba160d220c13 SHA-1: e3db41191c77f57b14d3afe45ee68d79afa6eba6 SHA-256: b928aaf3d4d0096a1f82bd421932e57a738260259329a256073dad2472736fd2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or for SEO manipulation purposes.

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=post+op+fever+5+ws PDF link annotation
    • http://motawosofi.iblogger.org/87234237476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagefepinulivaf.iblogger.org/unspeakable_joy_douglas_miller_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xasizati.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135978204/7454350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moxibusas/KStgjV6/ice_cream_maker_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raxuzuvuluf/fhd5tja/xugisamoxuviwolufuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393521/normal_6014536f8cc1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369648/normal_5fdc37a1c5984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bomemenun/XegjhfW/ivan_the_gorilla_still_alive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381297/normal_6013335e7c5d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448984/normal_5fec166415df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kominepoli/SsDg5gj/nuluxomanidubaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500438/normal_60012c5a17713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joguxujeganu.iblogger.org/ableton_live_9_lite_project_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://puxejinasor.epizy.com/imo_messenger_for_pc_windows_7.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_off0000df52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF52 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 29c9aae69a6d69685f015d8f0bc941cec98b1eaa8452d7e4d78a67d7a6e31077
font_01_sfnt_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 11328 bytes
SHA-256: d0d155adf9d76df3c143878f0663ed4a515421784b95215adb4e1e7ef60130af