Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8396e71f807e78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:30:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6a225a778c08d2a5e62ca679783c0f6d SHA-1: 1b9cfec5c18a3251cd9f4d1ca006f4a9bcf04086 SHA-256: ca8396e71f807e782f2656be0d505808d5589a08965fadaf4aa33c7efaf523a3
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to files on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic analysis identified it as a link farm designed to obscure its true purpose. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a malicious document intended to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 4

  • 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://smsgurugram.com/miet/assets/files/pitaxarazojijexobatulipix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kmjmt.com/news/upload/file/2109111230501959833f1k5x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/37982137403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/sejodubekudekafisepudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210902145254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laconchigliacasevacanze.it/userfiles/files/20566918330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/46234693481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210911084248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/donubumavipurogaxusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/vitedorinoxeverojapefejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/55386621411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedinogeseriraroxefamime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/2891657681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/81282774328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafuwibutawebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zepaxurazorifipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/jevitozorimukuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34211e4290247452efc12813f34a9687/resurulemogagagodisoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/49844409494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/883766435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/55149613056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///rulasifebarupudimizomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/57392624241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/majabivudazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=best+buy+phone+trade+in+valuePDF 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_off0000cd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5F 10960 bytes
SHA-256: ec75276963a8f50b87767f517ec4d1e2404c0ab339eb235a8adbe699fae645a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE690 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA2 18276 bytes
SHA-256: b8495d78bb175be4f753d42a3d47ef29ec8baf946c7626ccaa07bec02a35cfd7