Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5f1500c559c9fa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:33:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 017e2bf6d41a39fe1198fdce1251d0c6 SHA-1: 24c0b46b8bf10dfc3b0b30ba5ec16dcf74a9902d SHA-256: e5f1500c559c9fa4de677cfbd109ce3197e54f57e21e7e5834ebe930d517fb5e
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing malware. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple PDF_URI heuristics further supports this. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading and opening malicious content, likely a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95684134000.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135133d0c826---90528477205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/mivirozabijiwujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15056155201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/piluvalatopaxikipewuvumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/vevabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210920074927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/1400561674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bac4014b0e50323198796f1d9fa54db/fuvomizubavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12477735803.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/gavekiwuriravaxipofamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/68593449440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/40258131334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workontext.ru/media/file/59959135559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/zuzezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/99638933262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///48575408899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210910174334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/20873318541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/47151070169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/nogotomakofewimabevuporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/titaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyubomiradineva.com/files/file/femimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=prehistoric+tribes+android+game+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d72f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72F 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2fa3e108cf5f5c3d1363e2f39f992c7513eb1f40f4f904355f99ede83b821d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF091 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A3 20268 bytes
SHA-256: 5bf4ef4ea94dbffc92e8c1570534577d640ec198995fbe8c8c252df3110a9f0c