Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8c412a763485589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4f88fd0508ed6ea25e1d16cd26263dac SHA-1: a0eb0154139cfed5b67be3ebf554742ca5875b75 SHA-256: f8c412a763485589249b4a2665a0a0c58c0b0251444383e3160616a8eb793775
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a link farm hosted on disposable domains, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/jobitowijemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/42362115735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/30749105220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/16166670656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/40001683305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/madatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.org/contents/files/fazoluzapuguvofiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/95485897648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021091008553989628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/77106582611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75774186469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/70230936839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/14011772600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20632565770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derp74.fooden.com/UserFiles/files/35352423576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/66693148086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/notasejukiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejuxezotalubute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613221b5437f7---fozegajobezomizirofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134aa27e9403---43050396675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51720364894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/77732608729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/96978307725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/68489667671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36827429877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5890752978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+news+app+2021PDF 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_off0000bd9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD9E 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 24895c7fdd4ff27ec6ee46e268381590ac1b7458422f94cf8936d77d444dd380
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D6 10772 bytes
SHA-256: a93353f1d7993f5d281d993ae77d43ee35535869718ce540cbe7f2d12f5678b5
font_02_sfnt_off000101f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1