Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15b50a23d3b5a957…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-04-01 21:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 289b30678815d76263e4659e0457be38 SHA-1: a2f6a9c8f473bafd7008f94773c06e357b2033dd SHA-256: 15b50a23d3b5a957ba3c83673519114807e8ae719f526db0d6685ec34fdeff67
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting services, and is identified as a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a theme related to 'Angiospermas dicotiledoneas pdf' and includes metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically to host these 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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=angiospermas+dicotiledoneas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/papowepu/aiaicTw/bloons_monkey_city_hacked_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilamasizate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/6608387901cd0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/josipinu/52xgehg/lozijovekepurovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fumuradowije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739974/xomazudewubeke-jiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jinoranimewaxop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134528513/4319036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanalupegekiful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134879682/2344807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/famagafe/gfChhOA/xesamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zoxowowi/ddyQtjf/webnovel_app_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c546797-a567-4d36-bd18-e36aba83b6ae/70880562710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab60d57a-1f92-408f-9079-0b325776b613.filesusr.com/ugd/724fb5_2ae5c3da26fc44efa9f427c00fc88833.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f39b63d2-9d72-4559-85a1-ab2f911ce310/ar_15_magazine_pouch_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/651179c6-59d6-47aa-ac9f-45a93720fc2c/zitorumixebojezivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5cdce6b-fc4b-4a80-8558-24a8aa1b53d2/keto_ready_meals_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/varolexexus/19409955613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://51364a6b-283d-4537-b9df-48522fd8faf2.filesusr.com/ugd/921180_5ccd90606fa14adea8ab7bd5f80fd8f8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://95a83a18-022f-4aa5-9dc2-588eac4c5c4a.filesusr.com/ugd/ccb6ab_bff4193706f547edabf218950577c2dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e5b02385-caaf-49a4-9d7a-a97359621376/88519573192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fizup/bitmain_antminer_s9_firmware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6b5d12f1-3bbc-48af-9ddb-5430d2fe15e7.filesusr.com/ugd/3bf302_3c622dd9899c4b9da4d4815749060502.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://db532842-334f-4efb-8993-e67ec8f20ff5.filesusr.com/ugd/bc5be3_f97a0f67480b4efdb3227a324c068590.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/midaguvimabof/66202555630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nilititonawafim/lol_runes_guide_jungle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0dffb5db-7775-4165-9fa8-a8d9d1986f72/how_to_fix_my_furnace_from_short_cycling.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_off000130b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B4 5464 bytes
SHA-256: c31f1b5ac04f6701a52d5659580a1c926c53fefd958f70c3306cc7e93d9211dc
font_01_sfnt_off00014336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14336 12196 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8f70f643d649b63bf2b3263071844bd2bb16f5d322ef78ed104676e1a103d7