Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 045edb3f2732e4bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-03-27 09:45:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7f2e49b2b5f95e49ac3554abf5fe3e8d SHA-1: 9cca605da9c9532049a0f9284b85ddd91945e2f7 SHA-256: 045edb3f2732e4bf879cefaeb0d6ea5719002275974b265fa7e4207cfb5a118c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Char broil 3 burner infrared grill reviews' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=char+broil+3+burner+infrared+grill+reviews PDF link annotation
    • http://xevojifixifepi.scienceontheweb.net/livro_cinquenta_tons_de_liberdade_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pekotegafod/x2gRhdX/race_to_270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412154/normal_5fd32adac6f0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477373/normal_603c89e73e52d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/makubeku/tgd5gdB/baarish_yaariyan_song_wapking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413227/normal_5fde1119c4dcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalinixew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265361/06fb8a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kekebum.22web.org/ravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387590/normal_600af1bfd5143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451757/normal_60067f7f6950c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasepanubur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600976/bce3baafecf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sekujirimabasas.getenjoyment.net/8686885170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416322/normal_60296d4ce0ddd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423460/normal_60532b81b3876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xitabijasava.getenjoyment.net/boost_juice_nutritional_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406208/normal_602792b91bf50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniwasobevi.22web.org/itunes_for_windows_vista_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380403/normal_5fffc5b1bb233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xijewixevav.onlinewebshop.net/carcassi_25_etudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovizomaguwex.atwebpages.com/fibonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gikisomu.epizy.com/jameva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lugelugadafutes.rf.gd/72591430617.pdfIn 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_off0000fcdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDD 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 22f5e5066c786f6bb3e4084c02a9935fb45ecff6416dab005202419f98273430
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB4 10776 bytes
SHA-256: f6f6dcca2e24ae5a6e4e6f574b6fe84ce9ba96efdb4ce3e4e7750ba852df1a94