Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b2e412f1fbb4397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-03-26 08:47:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 2e96a424d706342b80f19ab424191ce6 SHA-1: e3b9482d95c2669fc13a182c223b30808f303ef0 SHA-256: 2b2e412f1fbb439713f44cc462a7b2d111ff6647347d79047f1df0cfe208bbff
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, which is not inherently malicious but can be used to create deceptive documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5958

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.
  • 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
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/award?keyword=akai+mpc+4000+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449793/normal_6004cc01f27f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447649/normal_5fc666a1c3ce1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369327/normal_601a3c9ba661e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473640/normal_601966a166f22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467586/normal_5fe9f5e4e2dcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483103/normal_60226177690ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426812/normal_601f195b31a59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454426/normal_600be5ebb7131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382972/normal_5fe8e08cddd46.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/3f447b9c-2e07-484d-b264-f9f455d8f7aa/jekodorexawomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b064d0e4-88d6-4b7e-8087-8ebf790fcba6.filesusr.com/ugd/ca32a8_719aa02b938140528624ff6010b46242.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e33ce82-db4e-4c9e-bf4c-083412e151f0/easy_veg_recipes_for_dinner_indian_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://979cd01f-16ea-4d2c-b189-234964c95597.filesusr.com/ugd/d4c4cf_403231cbe3864028a02ab05e6b61be5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e073981-ad1c-4081-8dc0-76946ba36063.filesusr.com/ugd/c4f63d_69bb823b25ca41ea8ea6719bdfecd839.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77cc4cc9-1e17-47b4-8300-67c9fb6a0851/23407137961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://55afd15b-9a96-48ff-beb6-d705f4765584.filesusr.com/ugd/8b06a9_b3d4979ebde14a6da7d7c1a5127b53ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/63d0f37a-086c-4b6e-a695-be2bb3519b7f/fazujejeminedanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42e87e32-5b3f-4202-8456-b00fb9019c0d/kinibewenabasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14ad270e-d0a5-4a96-97e9-90d9d9a09d46/why_is_my_typo_shower_speaker_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9e0ebcba-7e04-41ac-afc6-cfc574163c15.filesusr.com/ugd/6725b5_96c6dcdc6dab4033a004a2b5dd06d2d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a600118d-401d-4010-9e3f-cd008182fe56/8917080579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ba0539f-f077-4966-bfc0-3b6aeac605cd/how_to_connect_hp_officejet_6700_to_wifi.pdfIn 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_off0000f810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF810 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 089563d6fa70efa7523209a4ad35a0465d15ded676d7dbcab639a96631956d90
font_01_sfnt_off00010a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A24 11476 bytes
SHA-256: aa8c8c61c8e84a5689dbd90cfa4b96283c64f59725687126cd6130fcbcd2b25f