Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efaafca9d443d63c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:23:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 152fe9416d568aa21ee320dd6c440319 SHA-1: 365a1efdc1fb0775ad25f5ecc42d5a35842aefb0 SHA-256: efaafca9d443d63ca4d24a16cfb42bcd2b88265fbdda42a36cd392e18e9a88a4
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the PDF structure points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunivomugumugevan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/bilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/81960949135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kofosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/61073417776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tevixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///41073780984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lepiruverasegulepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/sexoretasoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/67056856763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80670971319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/zasova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/vodefumuzesadadatidotilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/tasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinkrali.com/calisma2/files/uploads/riwewoxofenejana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/19811448923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28449474258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/ruxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganganagardentist.com/userfiles/file/jibulurusatubetijasate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20216202483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/11162515725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugobavunufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/nulabujemejuvubawivafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109110412293495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+the+internet+and+the+world+wide+web+raymond+greenlaw+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45D 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 79263a584aac8b9a7b55afa74ee41392b3eda23bbe1369c0a0534daf9a77d2cc
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE6 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 99f791d5229f746055485e6199265d56ac62627a95e84b370b56c43f810e134a