Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cddae5a51177b90c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-03-16 13:42:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 18f5e14011669a445a0fc9e25a7663a6 SHA-1: 88e4c1ea1d9070c8f8e2cdc6392f3dc5920d8db3 SHA-256: cddae5a51177b90ca9bea1e8b6951ada8ae4e9ae7faad109bb66cbea86db353a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely part of an SEO link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=ielts+writing+task+1+academic+answer+sheet+pdf+2020', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=ielts+writing+task+1+academic+answer+sheet+pdf+2020 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/zgdihnB/minecraft_survival_guide_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezifenax/niiojji/allcast_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nufesewepi/bgjibGD/imf_programmes_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zavipudajose/djdI7dy/domino_effect_synonym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sikazigazes.mypressonline.com/51300747208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ludirobus.getenjoyment.net/how_to_reset_a_viper_car_alarm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tejidirexe.mywebcommunity.org/peer_gynt_in_the_hall_of_the_mountain_king_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munasimowijuxi.getenjoyment.net/jogos_para_uma_aprendizagem_significativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xapawavuma/9phf451/ant_manager_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutifufaxe.mypressonline.com/code_de_la_route_aux_etats_unis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jasazotinalol.mygamesonline.org/86092271599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejekadiwoxobiz.getenjoyment.net/89661122748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://dc383e6d-b7a3-4e67-a88a-227fa542b6c3.filesusr.com/ugd/72b0e7_5f03a970554a4eaabbcbe06b46bbbd78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://desasivitusuzux.epizy.com/haier_portable_washer_accessories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xukokumo.myartsonline.com/wugikubatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0eaabcdb-938a-45a6-85a3-1a7d796bbcdd.filesusr.com/ugd/8d6d25_c02737519a204a81b0576713f320f076.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dukudolit.rf.gd/what_are_the_duties_and_responsibilities_of_a_senior_project_manager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://436240a4-ef10-404e-ad90-c5cab949c7af.filesusr.com/ugd/3fb742_ffe8fcef45524963858152a5de645d67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gifesikubelazu.epizy.com/because_im_happy_mp4_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lefabeku.epizy.com/negative_prefixes_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mugekalamiwatek.epizy.com/english_language_video_mp4.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_off0000db8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8C 5988 bytes
SHA-256: acb3ce91897431627e64670b0dfae469f3fc8e4f749f9036bb1191f9234c01d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000efdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDC 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6dce7f3b010ccc876b4b6d177c2ef5a44ee3aac05ef02049d097e9bf5222b7