Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29ace2b2b4b3154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:51:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 48d9ddc42ca7fdff0e1e6361880da37c SHA-1: a02131452617d02340a2f40bd54c6524b08335e9 SHA-256: c29ace2b2b4b3154147c28f74fd817de4b3b63a342a1d21fedefabc542d5ff03
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to suspicious domains and file names, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of many external URIs and the PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK heuristic indicate an attempt to direct the user to potentially harmful content, likely a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 5

  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/87714742688.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/powolazinetoxosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://currenwatch.myhost360.cn/file/upload/files/09-02-15-19-30-24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhl-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60578651877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210913022815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/24568825617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/71540051871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariosanfrancesco.com/userfiles/files/44061354542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasonoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/81441695760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96713572370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/26219179308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/jinadujufesuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/katiluzesegelesoruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/98594207965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ml5mo5h14q462dl4g5807e8h/1176104504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/88638107537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/67004574546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/xejaniledagejanoteroton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/virezusonetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingfrimale.com/userfiles/files/pudereti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/fafumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/17622480886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/banig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021092103000857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=narcos+free+streamPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b33a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB33A 15056 bytes
SHA-256: a58a2f5f6c2736d03f1db62364d921af12b9014a25e4ceb41af185766b2b9265
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF186 10232 bytes
SHA-256: eb90de2104248852163b80b3f63a45eb4b0d8caffa69fee85661978ae617db76