Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a46772f9502c3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-03-14 01:10:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 000e02dda482d3f62d569361df1d53cc SHA-1: 89dd656dc84640d768f1490bc8beaa79beee43e0 SHA-256: 42a46772f9502c3a3f2142d4b9b70dbcb50fcd3bd135dfee7950cf079b113532
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The embedded document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, suggesting it was generated programmatically. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=airbrushing+techniques+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gta-msk.ru/8163258051nt7ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4406241/normal_5fc6c27d5ccf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romizipomubem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775952/pemole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatubovelogised.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375195/3346542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwbook.org/gigenuvevakiqask9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365608/normal_601cbd00624c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elerctum.org/36895403102z5znl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devomideribura.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134401990/65d6641c8c34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maselevajaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398143/3236460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neseroto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326238/b1520ea1f5295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuwoganerolet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631505/c30f76dc6dbea0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mezepobavufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134717124/6632300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towipikegogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690187/28691088c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vabeluzaxudi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884936/novabaje-subutopox-jupupobagided-damerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463275/normal_603bd7efc7931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xilasofuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651230/savofijuxugo.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/99b7ee0a-fc52-4ac9-8b8f-8d87d03f5af9/how_to_graph_a_mathematical_function_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/151e0707-a05c-4594-b6dd-b2ee2b9c84a1/27119984459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4f168d2-f7c8-404f-8715-252a5e1a31d3/los_72_nombre_de_dios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59576c3b-612b-462f-bd92-4c7e1051502f/vezalulizokavazet.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_off0000e3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B9 5432 bytes
SHA-256: c974c0e859797c5aa4efefea20c5ae9e81d96849621565c63ace38c604573b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF626 10052 bytes
SHA-256: c6f660d9eefe1bb0a177e578a2ab27f3031c82465d3bdc16c56fe1373457cbc2