Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e287c93bf56eda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-03-27 17:07:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b2373f5d5b4ea8f6ce283953b05d2788 SHA-1: de4f179b260a81a9c8ee0fd0d715d11966f83eed SHA-256: 28e287c93bf56edaf2b66f245563623cee696e336e3d16105a206156cf44a172
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to financial accounting terms, combined with metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically to appear legitimate. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=financial+accounting+terms+and+definitions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369491/normal_60305358d4d73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369630/normal_5fe019fa68520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lomofoxagut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524577/takadabidase-meranofalijunup-vezubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487201/normal_60297a1b7077f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numurivigafezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390613/61373e6b4f4ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453551/normal_6046140516cda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellmax-site.xyz/pofiseyktiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403681/normal_5fc8434a77f49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwhite.space/badminton_game_freezz4qn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welavomuwaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633166/8112184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusatetop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408029/2201328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelait.pro/plate_tectonics_crossword_puzzle_answer_key_1-10z3xfu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozuviwugil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681927/bd0fc15b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bipesulevawitod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437914/7957895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trysol.xyz/48423297068bkxei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369912/normal_602380d9ce688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldhold.online/geometry_worksheet_congruent_triangles_sss_answer_keylbi3h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369162/normal_600c90a0281a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b025c57-c1f6-4b9a-8aa5-00d2a5f3325d/vobapuduxewofome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a313a7a-36fe-42b0-884e-0a073bc180a6/wumolagiluvewid.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_off0000e27e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27E 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 5bb517cfd5633a6750e249dc360782f0cb66cbcc368ea803dd95e5e24bfd5aa5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E4 11028 bytes
SHA-256: e3f675e562cec9bea0e5c5e31bd2846e4bd6d0e4292ee826f5ac28cc50e43dc8