Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e77356ce08d0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 14:35:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5fc809db8d53de1aa9693234e994562a SHA-1: e43c47168390b21a0fe4294f817b695da163763c SHA-256: 46e77356ce08d0d87aaab823c95fa5dd402514d415a9b2b7394c1d892ff30950
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with the primary one being https://ketchas.ru/pbw?utm_term=minecraft+pe+shaders+1.16, suggesting a lure related to Minecraft. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', indicating its generation method rather than user-facing content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://ketchas.ru/pbw?utm_term=minecraft+pe+shaders+1.16 PDF link annotation
    • https://diwosilanula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134765308/nikikojusagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxebugifujame.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134478015/vulasod-lusixatob-lafinezuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369648/normal_5fdc3807c4e62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456379/normal_5ffff67673730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500430/normal_5ffc570290268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xopubuniwanofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131716/fcab878c59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386829/normal_5ff9654bbaa46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xepuduwosijun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634987/juzadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jesababa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144415806/convergent_vs_divergent_thinking_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/872fa625-bca8-4c63-92bb-3e26b2eb182c/42890926459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pigedigasexu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144508494/skins_para_slendytubbies_3_piernas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zizovitunex.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144608526/converting_g_to_kg_tes_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad78ae07-af53-4e45-abf3-12d8639f19b9/what_are_descriptive_words_that_start_with_l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegugas.pbworks.com/f/46383130459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubipuwaf.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144505824/azolla_cultivation_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keborekudud.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144686607/mathematics_questions_and_answers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakomija.pbworks.com/f/48418447162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezakoliz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144701433/legedovilemosebifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibuvedatixi.pbworks.com/f/what_are_the_accounting_standards_in_the_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redelaw.pbworks.com/f/47095723695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d45bcee-f38d-4093-a62b-1eab0676af85/vegegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokoxudalux.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144426018/58688280365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxikadafi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144622533/board_works_gcse_biology_homeostasis_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2be95489-7e0f-4ce6-8642-4c4f97181e85/fenapalexejuvisobu.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_off0000e705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 7b46f9f1609ee2d9bfcb1165201cee4ae359151464b9bdf0845dfb0b9efd2453
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A5 14316 bytes
SHA-256: 654e1d04b3a404a8f29bdf68ab84eb08aa9a0674dfd94d5798adf1145e616ef4