Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e4005029d867555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-03-08 13:20:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 36a6ef9212eb28b14ed69dfa372e04e8 SHA-1: e457a36407d9b0dfb537e983ec908f487a166548 SHA-256: 1e4005029d8675555c5339028c5f4f13f9e304b6eb00478d99e0f0d4038a4fa5
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 pointing to disposable domains and potentially malicious hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a URL that aligns with the link farm heuristic, suggesting the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+subgame+perfect+equilibrium PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dunenilufa/2PhcMif/42086278580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/telapunojawu/fNrLGhe/88090273318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491414/normal_5ff310ff74af7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xowefew.22web.org/siratesuligoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487409/normal_5fdb8aeba2eea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/famagafe/haOF3jd/private_memorial_for_kobe_and_gigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midekupe.22web.org/gokonipunatewutisolewetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424330/normal_5ffca3951e437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417205/normal_5fd9dbd028bd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefulobesa/iMjdMbv/top_100_rap_songs_2019_clean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jaguwubax/gh6tqVS/getazolewapobuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370270/normal_6045e621eb17b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://jasosuwer.epizy.com/46429645418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polexunew.epizy.com/gopulaxawojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatimofaxemog.rf.gd/34707398102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2eeb51df-07ba-4372-80d9-1ef4646fc7f7.filesusr.com/ugd/6af210_afa38bd20737498291024f8d131a03f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wasutin.epizy.com/fire_risk_assessment_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://645c32c3-7e99-4959-b93b-7980205539d7.filesusr.com/ugd/30a31c_9c031279b8184261b564a0f25f24f2ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4647adb0-9c01-46a1-aef1-4380d5873f13.filesusr.com/ugd/edb4a7_a69a98bfbaa04dae924556bdef7bf114.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://norisufa.epizy.com/56610488908.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f71a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71A 5372 bytes
SHA-256: c940795c3c48fc4543e6819dd5997af3c110b127f51231003a6b5e607e1246d1
font_01_sfnt_off0001096e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096E 12224 bytes
SHA-256: 37abfdf16fca4506eb21605ee28e1e7e43a5b8679b22cb97809f1a9ab4dbce32
font_02_sfnt_off00013204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13204 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378