Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f58a63961f1e2e09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-03-18 14:19:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ea921fd4e4ca35d78aea0a71fddcfedc SHA-1: 209c5f5a6730f1a7099525a369598eb3aa676344 SHA-256: f58a63961f1e2e0947515579297fcc207d573cb6a47efd04c0db1e37ce36a780
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. One prominent URL is 'https://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=the+ascent+of+money+full+documentary', and another is 'http://newipufisatag.scienceontheweb.net/punenilofivujes.pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=the+ascent+of+money+full+documentary PDF link annotation
    • http://newipufisatag.scienceontheweb.net/punenilofivujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370270/normal_603e29c2a0c84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402933/normal_604655b041a0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491927/normal_600f9e96c1891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4531626/normal_60288782aa6e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412996/normal_6039481a24c33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500897/normal_6017433e63b2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezumitisud.mygamesonline.org/kugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381340/normal_5fd7995fa4078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desokore.medianewsonline.com/antidiabetic_herbal_drugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402250/normal_6034ebfc1c058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilizepanaritob.22web.org/61029955384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c1d61d78-9bae-425c-b347-ee91470fe4f1.filesusr.com/ugd/60933b_7e89d45c6c144f19b74e9d1e4fc27f5f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufoxorog/81058245406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://18e99e0c-7034-4a8c-9069-267580a295b8.filesusr.com/ugd/b337f5_4dd82705e54d4992ab53db7380863d51.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zikeko/62436296416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropuba/26404306114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/levumoduf/chopin_free_sheet_music_nocturne.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lekelepowo/clases_de_sistemas_operativos_para_moviles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familule.epizy.com/40443494121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba30dffa-51fe-4caa-9472-6f142403a9bb.filesusr.com/ugd/c2007e_2d0ec2a67a314da9b976a80be248eddf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pidukuniwid.epizy.com/18303111494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f770b3d7-c897-40e0-9323-5ad0abd91552.filesusr.com/ugd/1fa6dd_e503ab9593734115b4b7697fabdfdbb0.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_off0000f69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69B 5312 bytes
SHA-256: d154e60d34a473d8adf9430e35109b233e2fd813957023a36acc5bb7c22bd42d
font_01_sfnt_off0001088c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088C 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 94b92c40ee5718baa6a019e18b6a437aa35f24f932693cfe3bf643e8529dc3ef