Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24d4df34e8acaa49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-02-28 06:08:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: fd8b4524bf8af0ab46353d73732e9484 SHA-1: b4139cd31c1a66ae89e437f94cd1bcfa9ecd7af4 SHA-256: 24d4df34e8acaa4993f14c323522a54c6770c3523928bfca1b259bf1ae1ac166
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', suggesting it was generated by a tool rather than being a legitimate document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=arduino+uno+hardware+manual In PDF document text
    • http://levantemosaic.com/mcdonald_s_lunch_hours_canadalbdss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mokabawimav/jhLGjgG/28473512952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andyhong.blog/53110107205ewv47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jepewadagamer.scienceontheweb.net/jugejazenufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bemoranoz/hhhgiaG/surface_area_of_a_rectangular_prism_formula_units.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wepunajexiju/dnnifha/apple_word_dictation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jugemito/twNAjbd/minecraft_pocket_edition_pc_windows_7_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovofuti.mygamesonline.org/quotes_from_the_book_by_the_river_piedra_i_sat_down_and_wept.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472186/normal_601883ecaa100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://importants.space/custom_order_maid_3d_2_patchdn9g3.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/genedesowul/agneepath_songs_video_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurabagoderes.atwebpages.com/ipega_bluetooth_gamepad_for_ios_and_android_win.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pemukusa.epizy.com/fileludoduxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xabimeweveme.epizy.com/fobibubajepuzevumoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledivalefinaba.rf.gd/segimudifuxoxifete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamulax.epizy.com/dofumutokakenenizanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tefetuzuzip.myartsonline.com/harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire_book_chapter_6.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_off0000e969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE969 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 5bcaf5219c23054433e8999c14653b8a16b8ef26aa353aa2400e0c7fa161c388
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA32 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 249b7bb546ab212312699352a1566edc5ca4ce0659affc1a191d2d6b08ec8f15