Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2391287192e81c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-04-09 07:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 492c58bfce4da79213c3cb22dce813d6 SHA-1: e0621f6e7aa108faa345198462b35cae9979628b SHA-256: 2391287192e81c319c6a0e9ae24a8ea486e13d45bc26ffa998455006c4e83555
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 that point to disposable hosting and link farms, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content, further supporting the link farm hypothesis.

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=what+are+the+words+to+have+yourself+a+merry+little+christmas PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepexapubu/BQgdiaZ/mewabanejumanobizubixagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-shop.site/bosawojimygdwl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusovaxurekugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900319/9906892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prechambre.xyz/hp_elitebook_6930p_windows_10_display_driverssa6xh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levubitadogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134727965/mevubumid-kigepuzipakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://899themes-demo.ru/how_to_reflect_on_a_journal_article5g654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bomikiwolug/Vhjhd4m/zugovopavoduneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/revinoxu/ggj6ige/9289371156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokio-2020.fun/53943597364daq2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rogapakaler/6jdjdii/gikuvemuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zumufapofow/uB6o2ia/lopisedopiramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetezilim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775858/540141204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasoxuxesatilu.sportsontheweb.net/55175359428.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/tugabijenovili/gowizubenenasinegekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vubelifijam.atwebpages.com/changing_fuel_filter_mercury_150_efi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pukiza/excel_footer_apply_to_all_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sesijesule/band_of_brothers_theme_song_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusebirenox.myartsonline.com/mathematics_grade_12_platinum_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a558e11b-9a10-4723-a7cf-e52abcc8f616/78569550655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ecaf6526-b789-439c-b7ce-b226bd9af1e3/does_the_fifth_wave_movie_have_a_sequel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23b9dff6-64f3-4802-b741-c9b343161eb0/que_es_aprendizaje_basada_en_proyectos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdfc5bcd-22d0-4e18-9dcd-48f7d45a95a9/zazepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/165fffec-2746-4596-8f4f-ae208ffea248/plant_pathology_book_free_download.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_off0000db6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6D 5528 bytes
SHA-256: fd6597d2d588b09e4eef71a17262a0137503df98130be3da83aaad1e7bca270a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE30 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 91214e74b59cf9e85c58883e6999106fa79c4d1b632ff36ef00deaa7788387d6