Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4533a0f00cd8740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-29 13:59:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 2ea9998f9a24c97835d07da26cec41b8 SHA-1: fcfc09a6d50bdb3a8b8432906d69eb96d61c7943 SHA-256: e4533a0f00cd87401af678dccfd5ac6c7ce0f20e53efc0a433ceef06a1e562ed
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute links across disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the sheer volume of external links points to a malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://iknow.pl/files/file/62839356996.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/41331208787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21665834472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/gopegepudedivonozepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/27137277688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/witepuwigomekodavoxakimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615145bb9ca3b---dibitadojemukuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/20029910575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/99671524781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46886759687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/98084034536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/45795921543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/pokavasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/79288825305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/lusupadamebudesiten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43462140183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/12794485973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekubasetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firmabudowlanawalczak.pl/web/uploads/files/parexovaxotoretuxusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc154ce45d4d3c2f0750dadfe2dcda5/xurukegewolapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/45431679287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacausedeslivres.com/userfiles/file/97582814796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-chengeng.com/uploadfile/files/18604408305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/75449996712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+pc+lite+apk+download+2020PDF link annotation
    • http://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210910/16312440386281.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://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_off0000af58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF58 14952 bytes
SHA-256: 578acb887c7a67f5b9e6943d4cdf36405eb405bf6832631aa622512c2c3a06b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50F 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 26e81b8824a8c8a7e93b4c5b474e73c2a8366fc1a0ba4d7754a584d9c14659ac
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1