Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eb40e4c4f6e9c27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-02-09 14:54:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: d312467159792dcfe50c7684b189d15b SHA-1: ecd9c06236c49f1479d2cd1f214a548afa02c16c SHA-256: 0eb40e4c4f6e9c271c9f8d719fb78ee6e8fd015c686ccb83317feed592a4849f
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting critical heuristic firings for linking to known malicious redirectors and hosting a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'sheet music' and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting numerous external PDF links. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/aws?utm_term=meekness+and+majesty+sheet+music+free In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxotonad/oHgeejh/30703497265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toxaxiked/MhajcKd/today_s_forecast_for_chicago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jopubelo/j04sgib/rope_bowling_level_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/falupuvevore/hZ5agyf/european_soccer_championship_game_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libepuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407284/701669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rudiwiguxovo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317070/1964129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kamupudoro/fgejgoR/rope_bowling_mod_apk_unlimited_money_and_gems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalokawagubur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398574/dudufanera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medway24.com/muruzodaduqzf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitokaps.xyz/roxevanukibero66vs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightshelpscenters.com/asturias_guitar_duolua99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jarixizotib/idhj3jb/pewijazelesabusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366371/normal_5fee2d39736bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/favejofu/SGYQoup/73570743214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445564/normal_5fdadc2fdbbb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wojusipi/phjcgjG/mlb_finals_bracket_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5-euro.info/liwuluziremexurolisapam39cl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedanafijokam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134888359/700630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407318/normal_5ffa077a5a049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • 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_off0000ca17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA17 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 2a17eca299ab3ac090ea00a61cddddce1e7bf408f7c2cec82a41e8965dfdac5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAC 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 4193079f5200a0bcb94160080826ff3c9e7472a2a8f4063bb2ca67b7c6618305
font_02_sfnt_off00010352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10352 16120 bytes
SHA-256: fb7b45e24c28c4473d0ca1c6410c593992d9a809009f9c41b5ae32c9142507dd