Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 201f957c37cc28f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-03-24 10:39:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 043cb4626104fd4b27eb04ba4b0785f8 SHA-1: f12f3b092b9dacda6aeb9595035b1e1ba3dedbe4 SHA-256: 201f957c37cc28f41e1b75c1bddf8f36ee11a5e8ce6a0b18ae255fe11a24c136
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on cloud storage services, suggesting an SEO spam or link farm tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://bologen.ru/wb?keyword=what%20is%20a%20civil%20process%20subpoena', is likely used to direct users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create SEO-optimized content.

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 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.
  • 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/wb?keyword=what%20is%20a%20civil%20process%20subpoena PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447450/normal_600fd492cfc66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469617/normal_6018eebc19c16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485576/normal_5fe7211d7f9a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390071/normal_5fe8f5dd47405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xojoreve/heBiJ53/54925885344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/texekikevow/eha9Ghi/world_cup_2026_stadium_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rufosopufu/aIzjdhb/fubume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wagejino/fjdgegd/tuxojokaruwajofimawidogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pajijolabalu/havhhgd/aharoni_font_style.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mezewimaxus/cgehdlK/forugidopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369915/normal_5ff50d54c80d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xeloxilava/giaQjbq/pottery_barn_christmas_stockings_2016.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/bidemewufa/85695349288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xisefowu/lafoxama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tiniruru/73915465780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://200c4c3d-185b-4246-b99f-f40cd7065c99.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed902_26355e5ba246401cb2e3342cd4f6bee8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gavobawum/jiruloxofeniwedodadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a5e13f5-66e9-4e25-8f81-ba84381a816a/90652415335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c805f22-5240-4a8e-9b4d-8499607ff1fc.filesusr.com/ugd/76156b_a106b390a58f4bccb2c99c4c3cc4749a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rodigapigeta/36289998664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/12bce1ca-8838-494a-a8ac-dc624171246e/kosodijofotuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d28eabe5-c05a-4226-b39a-46bb587d810a/piaget_and_erikson_stages_of_development_chart.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
    • 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_off000137de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137DE 5232 bytes
SHA-256: 6fdf49cb657deff3a9ea38a606becb8337984c53f86e69b0200b7225085bb13f
font_01_sfnt_off000149ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149AE 11292 bytes
SHA-256: b57237dec7868fd1c5290ff4ec4fe846b856269b07aed72230299288a860dd31
font_02_sfnt_off0001705f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1705F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: ea75db71c9df7250347a03039f742fcd189f5fc3f08964e696816fa8b5227073