Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17dd376ec3bb62bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-04-03 17:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8682df7149f2cb39546186031c8cfe30 SHA-1: ebb6eae8a3328610c12413a605063d7413c527ac SHA-256: 17dd376ec3bb62bfa4c1daa45abf3daa9652030f7b63a092412c1285343eeca8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'income support online reporting' and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=income+support+online+reporting PDF link annotation
    • http://vigazorafoli.iblogger.org/philips_all_in_one_cooker_recipe_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvovoturuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135322548/lenomimivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421215/normal_6015956b34001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446016/normal_5fda783b06aaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noriwisisun.iblogger.org/corel_paintshop_pro_2018_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487623/normal_6004c0381ba0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetagurekejoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741571/29ae7388d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verezitabel.66ghz.com/gujisorudasazudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413110/normal_5fc6b911ced4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484623/normal_6055663909fe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412378/normal_6056717a1d13a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417656/normal_604ae59e664f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415930/normal_60537fc4d9c12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxewiwupir/does_roomba_655_have_wifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pofomabagemekut.epizy.com/kindle_fire_hd_8_7th_generation_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wavunot/pewelumozevizumomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ac3db616-04cb-40f1-8357-c67041f5e20c.filesusr.com/ugd/eda9ba_74c7c9bff5be4de2932402ac17983c24.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dajaxul.epizy.com/bogisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ffb80149-315c-4936-8637-e87477b606fc.filesusr.com/ugd/e7410d_9b5f0b95e82e4753962257667c6985e1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8f6f9f04-f977-4239-955d-f6aecf2dd879.filesusr.com/ugd/81cd61_c0bdb594cb9b4695963447f526654de1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://76f5a3e5-08d8-4581-9975-6c1b933a1845.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbd16_c03e7e5aaefd48a6af0a0dbc3f1cbefb.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_off0000ed56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED56 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 8aee431eef1dd62990f5efa5ffe84eabe9e525bf5cb6c36efd3e48a782821301
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE36 10760 bytes
SHA-256: bc21c974de9628f42e08114cca2a84f44b5b566ee2e902d321d4ed1d03a158c2