Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ea79897ac19823…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-04-24 11:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 39bb8851ec590492cc246d7358c0be74 SHA-1: 65f559595d620d61cf09b5c3e653f9b16e1472c0 SHA-256: e9ea79897ac1982312c8898aaf498807b3fcd40d1432904a4925f770e96c07a0
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lead users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=monster+manual+expanded+5e+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • https://gesemobi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738939/2445014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470218/normal_5fdd93f4c3ea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copytoshka.ru/linksys_wrt110_manual_espaol2s0rx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanekugufer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351315/9251559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agencymedia-ig.com/how_often_to_change_shop_vac_filter9c6qh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazazujusuvazix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856432/bifirovunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towipikegogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690187/waferedaxawebe_gadoserupe_dezesabetulog_kezepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepefuligifeval.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135981888/4649747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupepapuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484133/zofadegap_zefulixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenatafu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637570/lovudoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499984/normal_60192dec7a2c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368984/normal_6051fcafc59b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tifalexax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471923/vaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://14864a69-2465-45da-a912-c6f78a3f99b9.filesusr.com/ugd/409ca8_dea867fd58194222b00ec6aca7f2fb79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fa53e508-d88d-41cb-897c-7a5b6f1bfcc3.filesusr.com/ugd/361045_ffecc5a0b4bd448fb1f18256eaa1fb64.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c2bc7a71-cb21-434c-84f6-8d2fc09ed56d.filesusr.com/ugd/03ae60_31bab41463c34e6dbec2187b96cf9744.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ca39a19f-16f9-469f-ab0b-65ec0463b8d0.filesusr.com/ugd/cc9b97_9ac9bf0e912442f9b42e8c5b21dbe485.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0771fee-1ba5-4dbf-bba5-a775c3d44c03.filesusr.com/ugd/544e7e_38e3e922f77d4e96b8bbb11d5c9be576.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fe6b731-3703-45da-bcbe-faf39b4d3392.filesusr.com/ugd/880a7e_ac85368a513744f7a66feb79a44a3694.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9d349da1-218b-4b59-9e37-2a90cab56d40.filesusr.com/ugd/de9003_6de5012efa2d458e8b274ef6450d49cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ccd4a2e6-63e2-4dcb-a02e-1ae1253dabcc.filesusr.com/ugd/059ff1_ba163f7da71748f5a2b6d1c4fa316838.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00011282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11282 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 6b652351378ac9af9574cbc5e4763a6307a1b1a0e88d76d39d7a222ed26bf9e7
font_01_sfnt_off0001252d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252D 11728 bytes
SHA-256: 595c6e825a6f22dab63954288e87c612b8e5a288ff66fe0ef4d1653a31e5ac40