Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f03fbfec959c22b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-10-10 02:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ae2b8e88c61d9b854c685bfc30b93b05 SHA-1: e1a28ac7654a8523d416a8db28ffa960c32e42ed SHA-256: f03fbfec959c22b6b7355d3591b24b7b64f8a21893780a87f318cce517059521
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a malicious attempt to distribute traffic or host malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and the nature of the embedded URLs indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly involving a drive-by download or phishing lure.

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 https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/36615740358.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pansky.ru/UserFiles/File/86484899766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/84067169751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikudarape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/medugotopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd5e56329c85f0638f2c38d09dae746d/91698205438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202109/file/tunuziwuvewofazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quasar.mago.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapulirigawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/33708038108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/58404112773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/masedanugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/lagimona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73668171648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20211010055305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae580cc40f165dbbc49677d376a2122e/54665841008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/86512926037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/23782803287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/58301378790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaksheer.com/app/webroot/upload/files/pezosipibesejiwujoruxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilegupafebijojiremomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuyendung.vinaonegroup.net/upload/files/kifajipiregilipaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontis.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/jafero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/rexezubowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tce.vn/imagesflashupload/file/61258827573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/9547896765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=will+the+stock+market+go+back+downPDF 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_off0000e702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE702 11128 bytes
SHA-256: b022bdb8a02032cd931d0a3ca0ca91017b1af960468664771f9dd71245bd40ea
font_01_sfnt_off000100a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BA 19312 bytes
SHA-256: f1383755b813c42313b0b3ea560a01091cd96d4f22cb1ac2a758b83e695303cd