Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb995516462c2ca1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-04-01 08:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 282e6f3d1b8c4c4a8e59d88638251146 SHA-1: 751ad7c030aaa2e4fd5193e294419a702d0f9061 SHA-256: cb995516462c2ca165f787d7a6a67eb894c1694b9333b1af536c29e3d25a083b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to mimic search results, directing users to a malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=fieldpiece+sman+4+manual
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kubepugemaki/ivA6TyL/27530930733.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jovowosifo/gjibh9I/nadibupegax.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/karadirimose/j3oghyH/a_guide_to_young_economist.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jesovolavig/iuhj3ie/64404486232.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xenojepezere/gfhaihe/splendor_in_the_grass.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/forosobeg/Shaidgq/24832551339.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipogidara/NGYgfhb/defenders_of_the_realm_an_epic_war.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/levowexesu/dianOii/45730185601.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dijowasedop/oAjjJeo/sofawepizegugezotoj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://2a07c75e-e898-48ba-b326-4cccc82d0599.filesusr.com/ugd/ff154e_80661a7b979d41d3af4d1e5fe42612f9.pdf?index=true
    • https://37e0f79d-b0c1-4727-b76d-5b759c81288f.filesusr.com/ugd/9c66ff_323f4c7cbb404516867d6c50a8d3a3dd.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tajimipojimo/tuxavaxiz.pdf
    • https://f8206d31-21c4-4aef-9da9-e4259ded718a.filesusr.com/ugd/c2bdac_d454305d13df46ea9b42002ae7999af6.pdf?index=true
    • https://d427386d-3434-45d9-8802-370857a594f4.filesusr.com/ugd/accd1f_841e8f1298bf4ec0a01a535f9b6a4a56.pdf?index=true
    • https://4647adb0-9c01-46a1-aef1-4380d5873f13.filesusr.com/ugd/edb4a7_040645a0eb754932a57d94d5969c2a3b.pdf?index=true
    • https://ce2645ba-e89a-43d5-afff-5c0150757291.filesusr.com/ugd/c63dba_3d89cf8fec4f481fae2e28217667087e.pdf?index=true
    • https://e0220c8c-c322-4c33-af83-7c5b0fe00b66.filesusr.com/ugd/a771bd_451d635ad9174948acabd708b3f1c534.pdf?index=true
    • https://3f740848-0e57-4b51-8596-564812021bec.filesusr.com/ugd/cbe17c_02587dac8cc44286aebd0203c6dcbcfc.pdf?index=true
    • https://a4346b84-4611-49ab-b113-80c9188ca613.filesusr.com/ugd/078c79_d4a0902cd51f4a34995ad5660871b014.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sowirutelevolur/55526036616.pdf
    • https://76df98a8-3e94-4eee-a6f5-23e1de06049b.filesusr.com/ugd/54c74c_d93fd9617d3b4dc2beaf9851c5e2f410.pdf?index=true
    • https://4bd9ed84-c80b-4837-bb2f-b1353ebfd8aa.filesusr.com/ugd/5a1791_1aef44610ede4df0bb42a5d8c53326a0.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudufigunabi/how_to_plot_data_in_excel_graph.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee06.bin
126d6b8926dcc5ff572b251fcb015ddfc399aafa6fb775cded26c35e4e31cbef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE06 4856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe69.bin
fe9f6336d2fdf2f4c2a03a68ef67ec76677b3282a5b969e6997a2e290b0fffbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE69 10668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012297.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12297 4324 bytes