Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edefdce15a95ff6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 01:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 251fadbd6af585ee9f0c396c45322f19 SHA-1: daaccba3169bb1ac3925994dd21ae1f46dd2f731 SHA-256: edefdce15a95ff6bad79969d88124beb171236ebb19f938e81ced454c81f9144
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The heuristic 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' suggests the document may attempt to execute commands, potentially via embedded JavaScript, to redirect users to these malicious links. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=lower+back+stretches+for+pain+relief+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xumizobizuzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688834/4914633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449605/normal_600adc882640d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamowolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134714390/bugodageripada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gebapawuvafiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134519736/murabazuwunabapiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456116/normal_5ffe99c950337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480397/normal_605f5a441d052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tujozidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694944/zafove_sebibupifovo_magakugala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramidavukul.medianewsonline.com/physical_science_grade_11_textbook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurupatasewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135958836/puvapaguravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486061/normal_5fdfbe1f98ab5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://63a0a607-6d1b-4b95-a813-f1b07cabc719.filesusIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://d1159ab4-cbf5-42eb-897b-83a5e94cd7da.filesusr.com/ugd/536122_afde98ba33754e4ea997614a01d94eba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kemesid.onlinewebshop.net/veguboxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/865fa72f-eb4b-4c39-8d93-412f58d13398/tecumseh_hm80_carb_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76ec74d4-5c1e-4578-b8f5-5de19f30e8ec/structured_computer_organization_6th_edition_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bipovoromoj/76511454405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/992249bc-9ffe-46be-b4f6-6042aba9e9cb/how_to_check_serial_number_of_laptop_via_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://63a0a607-6d1b-4b95-a813-f1b07cabc719.filesusr.com/ugd/ad56f2_309ee2251fbe487ea9a30ff0ececc95f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e1b391e-4c54-44a4-b8c0-aba8c8f40dec/38287905072.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sabobenuwe/smart_watch_browser_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zepifudoxapo/24987669865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://711920be-b761-4f0e-a604-762b26663b16.filesusr.com/ugd/ffcbea_8ef522b438514977a2c8633f7b16fc64.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC8 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 0799c3ed45a9367774a1c7b4a73d5049b4b8a94a2e51e4cb1693015d856e391f
font_01_sfnt_off00010daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAF 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd8f23f87afeb4a04e8005758dc5fe565862c3b6598e76d01fc3e7d80c96a4d
font_02_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 9731cfdce1a048649b614baf161373489d5ac9ee91ae2cf96e4ccc1114151000
font_03_sfnt_off00013b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B48 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f