Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3572f3af880fda1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-08 05:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 298e817c7d854fc85c4423443ac36de5 SHA-1: ecc252a0a2dde7619887dce6cc9e1e24dcf2107e SHA-256: e3572f3af880fda19e2894e3b3bf4c6e9524b82766c3ce140f5d429dd995b4d7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/pbw?utm_term=earthquake+definition+causes+and+effects+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386074/normal_60061ed57ff2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450039/normal_600a4969732e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470678/normal_5fe9c3f6a2520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zodijezuworid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483265/ruwakudasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426966/normal_5ffa7576524ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafewalu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350628/2063904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safuziketuxoxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814855/xasabiwimukas-ruxelufut-fivolibumobafi-pexobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musagitunoton.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134368320/mebatolevutobizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450514/normal_604d1d8af2276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382790/normal_6011fbff957ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369629/normal_603aff8443b0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497368/normal_605a20fde1425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366375/normal_6015fc1b14eb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0197978d-b983-4aca-8604-34071ec0f54e/50076655778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nugurafuge.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144518718/what_is_family_tree_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bovozajezo.pbworks.com/f/bad_eggs_2_unblocked_games_77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e8f604f8-a8a6-4231-93ee-277368d8a02b/gamesir_bluetooth_controller_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d057538-1986-40f3-8d77-c46c7274be53/the_fallen_order_ps4_trophies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatojorisa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144444978/how_to_determine_bearing_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e817ff9d-3c7e-43c0-90cd-70d0063bc8bf/50633360354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevawigo.pbworks.com/f/how_to_reset_tp-link_extender_ac1750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2df6b044-fd42-43d1-b7cf-a2ba8deff75c/how_to_turn_on_vivitar_bluetooth_headphones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f7be4da-7da3-4354-8851-5ae5545c8e9f/77542427618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cfdd0e0b-d36d-4336-9000-c2d0f3b007ab/68143502155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxikadafi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144419082/nasabijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6492c05-94a8-4b0e-a0d3-c03b01e4216c/why_does_smoke_detector_keep_beeping_after_changing_battery.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://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_off0000f375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF375 5360 bytes
SHA-256: a831a82bf0b5dc9f2c7a8e917f9e52e44b150bb46d8f312d9686926fdd9a3582
font_01_sfnt_off000105af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AF 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 4b66735c405e65496e4e021e129383d5235b3f264d1057cc517a89cedeeb255b
font_02_sfnt_off00012af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF3 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd