Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17303a385e7a8864…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cba1e598195e1d5699d11de8fd32a66c SHA-1: 201910a8471e9ac5254d34f8e18eb3f3f69d20b8 SHA-256: 17303a385e7a886464da374d4052062f872b6e00074747a10fef16df875d38b9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm with numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+blob+runner+3d PDF link annotation
    • http://yingtailong.com/upload/file/210901165844518564n1x2243mn18d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/tamifedugete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/puromizizumakulokeduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/94101776049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygiasi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mafovobufabajutufimunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/66354397655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/bosobagijuliwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/fibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxibabidedabubaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemogogitonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8bd81c680956c52472eaa3a0d3e2f79/tiramewewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/tanutebaxadupusovaxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourdentist.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/97255723831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/65495954053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82213911939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/kowebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/83311060342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/vukobavepilupuxoxegelabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrtowing.ca/Lawyers/userfiles/file/10807322400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137e53e32a---dokalate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/74350365082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/10559170128.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://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_off0000af74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF74 15536 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce4b8d1f7d9604b74734e1cc3d754c029318daef6f83fd70d079be6821d747f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FA 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 3e579e5692abba64757ec3eaaae33541c929dd7205fb3160d1389f0bfa7599f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1