Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01eea8d8dbe8f656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-03-12 01:51:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5cf62b99aae9c2c03caf5798ed84136e SHA-1: 9a818b7b3891fb24fe05a3ce0fc64a7989be8318 SHA-256: 01eea8d8dbe8f656d72d65451992de845083d9ca21dfd29d0e0e0ac175c30e03
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf and includes a deceptive title. Numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or CDNs, are present, with one specifically identified as a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to malicious sites via these embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=extent+report+cucumber+example PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365575/normal_5ff1f049d2b67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445321/normal_5fe4ed80d1ed5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379722/normal_602fd6623e469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501770/normal_5fcb101664331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubuwem.iblogger.org/english_picture_composition_worksheets_for_class_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tobizopowebo/8Byhaij/sesubarazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolobovofozuz.22web.org/fallout_4_companions_romance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446636/normal_5fd77c2a4c75b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420589/normal_6037087a7231f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovatagemi/hdhjwif/weekend_getaways_from_chicago_in_october.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judijemavup.22web.org/56583555443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469365/normal_601fe05f61e3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tusufawenu/AQhbhax/civil_war_gettysburg_battle_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ranotigu/U8sFquV/75186529377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zifiguwosu/dvZhehc/callaway_big_bertha_golf_clubs_used.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bef89f6e-6323-4b84-ad9d-a44490bfcc4f.filesusr.com/ugd/96768c_bfb67c7080284fe7964615b9cccd6428.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mefinuxewo.epizy.com/autocad_civil_3d_2011_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funakadoni.rf.gd/battle_of_warplane_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5330c89-3eae-48c7-9776-34547f907099/larakoxemifuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3aaa850f-6f26-404b-bfd0-ed11c5edb3b3/best_strength_training_program_for_weight_loss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30383b9b-b26a-44f4-9a26-03873af8f03c.filesusr.com/ugd/fdee49_0c05b3d5c2704372a28460dcdc3d1446.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b860d920-8047-4360-815e-c9f51cd49d27/52860461601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bdf0888-6458-4c7c-9e85-d45108ebd7ea/tudobebuworisivugexasegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1eb0c90-c834-4af9-92e5-a1c2623ba272/pilgrims_progress_film_2008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b6de9e3f-c562-4e05-b5ee-70895c8060ae.filesusr.com/ugd/3801ff_b39f71b1197b461884b54220d1382720.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_off0000f84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84A 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 77e0980cf9709cbcb6cb2b778a7e42361ead500f8dd29d31a05c75bf5daf4b1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10973 11560 bytes
SHA-256: 4c065356d529fd2c23b51bff9ba4f71628856a9fcc31ae4d68ee4464cb700cf4