Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a0c5f2f5740d9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-02 17:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ec0d8db19a49a24963e96b9b360b0c26 SHA-1: 20970acf1fd7746a147fefda7128fb279f36013c SHA-256: e4a0c5f2f5740d9e4c149816c578d580637a34ecec35f0198a0694a16abc55ce
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to direct users to external websites, specifically identified by the URL 'https://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+change+text+color+in+pdf+comment+box'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI suggest a social engineering attempt to redirect users to a potentially harmful site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+change+text+color+in+pdf+comment+box PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4484359/normal_5ff5a4de07864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4406787/normal_60b495ddc5d96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411918/normal_601d728eb793a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426828/normal_605308e298c4a.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/af00ec8b-0136-4ea6-9f59-4d0df2c006ea/constitution_of_united_states_of_america_1789_rev._1992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/167ab436-614e-4add-b58e-779396bc6a21/fifowitolasobogeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barumena.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144440637/how_to_install_badland_winch_on_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cba693cf-65be-4ca9-8e9a-ab3046973c0e/67321787091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b49ae980-ee4d-4d62-9d8f-9b8f57c4ec3c/cable_de_comunicacion_plc_allen_bradley_micrologix_1000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144421809/mebozininadinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibegenav.pbworks.com/f/gugijuludijegujafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katafuzum.pbworks.com/f/how_to_fill_out_a_stock_ledger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9b62775-9ef0-4f70-acea-591b8ccd0d41/honeywell_8000_install_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxamom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144473328/77514823296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed0007da-1096-4dab-bd8e-c0603eda9f2a/friendship_tea_bag_poem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zowonixepor.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144440514/lezopoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b072a9d-af3c-46e7-845d-edd9ea2c0a02/motorola_sb6120_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zufiwuz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144447474/65560404512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d827a331-13c6-4458-afd2-69b2301b2e9f/9788746110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a6cfd98-40d7-4ee9-bac3-cf8f6f5c6f27/ernest_holmes_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b9ea5d3-a855-4a81-badd-074c1e442ff2/how_to_lay_concrete_formwork.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tisowowuduwe.pbworks.com/f/28106939969.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_off0000e4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B0 5652 bytes
SHA-256: a9f6d9276ad5a11d39180b71a7256165c29a7bd496ff065fd489af4ce48f9d45
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D5 9944 bytes
SHA-256: cf2fa48934f11e6cfd0996231649003c125e4231da23c60176b27c4db6f1e236