Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eedb0de394f5e569…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-15 16:10:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e17302bc1acd6cdc74294b11bc58099e SHA-1: c312286a9ef89877187e4f97da9dbd0d9e81e458 SHA-256: eedb0de394f5e5695535af4c7f7944a0bf8f9fda4065dbdfd6967ff51a3ec90e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with heuristics identifying it as a link farm and a redirector to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious intent appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites, rather than executing code directly from the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=weather+activities+worksheets+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guromufupadaf.iblogger.org/sierra_circular_skilsaw_modelo_5150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fegukajebaj/djajcKd/viral_sport_tv_apk_2._0._8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gaxumisi/nAhghbf/phone_check_and_test_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suwurivuta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/lisusigaka-nitoten-nosulimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufiwusogak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319395/9231994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rifunojurese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134370075/8647467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radogatibemif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815767/fowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuniladolu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/kewanijeniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vunozeguwogiwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745761/98dc1d0133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/neratimo/TKhgsDA/convert_drawable_image_to_bitmap_in_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferejupaxebul.iblogger.org/calvary_temple_audio_songs_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizizisexulap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407181/jumar-kusefuwuxusa-zavuzapukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://247e77cc-5367-4382-8586-7c5891409f42.filesusr.com/ugd/2dbf5a_5db541b0439f411793203b83ac92eafc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://63b1f34b-4847-450f-8d9a-4788d10e1cf5.filesusr.com/ugd/451a43_61fe2b8d0f1f4b55bce31815970b91f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35479656-6a94-44d6-ac55-da507c14a2ae.filesusr.com/ugd/d68318_647f7c9048324353965c22a1782d10c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2dc0326d-ac60-47d8-bf46-f2dc9d334570.filesusr.com/ugd/21b4a7_43ec8a19dea7491a898b1252d36300a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://724418e0-3ace-43c1-abd8-628b4820fc71.filesusr.com/ugd/6df952_97af9da2aa2949ed81228f78feea60e9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dubebexo.epizy.com/mammography_positioning_guidebook_louise_miller.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://404c0e03-56c4-4888-bb84-d9d32a71a3e4.filesusr.com/ugd/100e2e_e1151e2497214118839cec79792f713d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a208a2de-cee2-48c2-86e3-c620a022946d.filesusr.com/ugd/dda32d_58128890709b4dd69d5cbccdde1b866d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xarigezosuwa.rf.gd/toyota_revolution_2020_price_in_sri_lanka.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_off0000dd48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD48 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 22b82bad7582a65467b230cc48e4c1e1722a7f53c583e998b6782044de7fbe8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 530baa56dfa314cb25b4c79c645155c9adedb0b315650cbeec7688c5509f2152