Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d10cc038bbffad53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 17:01:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2ac0da6c80ec2733885edfeccf998b18 SHA-1: 66e35ee78f778b2908e5ce6910f7067596be93ab SHA-256: d10cc038bbffad53187c8ec2bb0c40c58f63fd814d46d53aaade34efef2f3427
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple external URIs and is flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the document's structure suggest a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a payload. The URLs point to disposable hosting, further indicating malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xajibur.ru/123?utm_term=adobe+acrobat+6.+0+professional+trial PDF link annotation
    • https://vevabute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265428/gukaposikibase_milimomagimiju_mowolimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabomefekezene.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740536/3096468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazusajapefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383727/kavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rujunile.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710621/sajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malosopiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695478/vilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://gutopevif.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144605136/giant_paper_flower_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivegaz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144723384/open_closed_and_isolated_system_in_thermodynamics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fudejob.pbworks.com/f/pipabexujixenigevofasejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/158afdb7-3b56-4659-93d3-4fe1278f14e3/how_do_i_reset_the_wifi_on_my_honeywell_thermostat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poforezufovu.pbworks.com/f/rojexujupavusibejuganezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kefimazusob.pbworks.com/f/pikukuvupogokufokoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3f241d3-20ac-489e-85de-0680cd1eabd8/foundation_science_physics_for_class_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togusan.pbworks.com/f/how_often_are_kohls_employees_paid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/009ec238-1521-49f1-a8fb-252171f5da61/70858136637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxuraroj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144677118/matelesazabapuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tusawijer.pbworks.com/f/shutter_island_full_movie_in_hindi_hd_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b3942ba-04fb-434d-a499-5fc4e6b49313/person_who_is_not_a_member_of_the_clergy_crossword_clue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulasamesi.pbworks.com/f/how_to_withdraw_nedbank_mobile_money.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EB 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 93e67e3a243fd04c557204a621f59ce514ecd4f566fd5197bd9c287f077bab9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C4 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 106a328c77000e6268e2dbd9d09bf8f7d67f6678408fe760e788920966b5fe18
font_02_sfnt_off000107d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D9 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 0b38f6fd5e0b54bfa22d5adee1cfe00629fe134100fc7cfc1ad14a2ab7974207
font_03_sfnt_off000117b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B9 14696 bytes
SHA-256: c199203a0b1967e53cc193b6f60a8c094d5e3e875b9ce456802801da5365a6f7
font_04_sfnt_off0001446e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1446E 16684 bytes
SHA-256: fe1ca6a691315ef32827512bb86cd3188d7c30cfa02bd4559714794831c9b14a