Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3f352db03d2d12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-03-13 17:12:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2cb18100c95d2f3c3f7e603cea44c796 SHA-1: 22fb3db3cc5b2792039fcb46675ab3ae739f3c4c SHA-256: 4b3f352db03d2d128106d2232b9211b3c090b4ad52122c7798e7676dc21345a8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious domains, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristics. ClamAV also detected it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'drugs' and is generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often abused for creating malicious PDFs. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=cause+and+effect+of+drugs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mibinataxufix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438539/00221b90a3af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnautmebel.ru/c_quick_reference_guide_templateb5dp5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424692/normal_60217be5078bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceter.xyz/how_to_change_load_order_skyrim_xbox_oneaw13m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379045/normal_5fefd1951e994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501975/normal_5fe00afab45a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450337/normal_6001fe9ee359b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfreeiphone.xyz/persepolis_shah_1971til96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple-fruit.space/gipudofikudurewosogokulbr6f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potenciy.xyz/jipowewobubakezz9452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esclick.pro/wizard_of_oz_bookci5n6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bovuxugiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901291/3170783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gufutaca3.xyz/new_century_21_logos6m8w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rankingcoach-seo.com/37789480496x1cx7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390056/normal_5fd8678eae9cf.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/pobixedele/arabic_alphabet_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vinejivunitego/86554188515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e13a453-3674-46a8-ac89-c8d2596a0cd2/impacto_de_los_medios_de_comunicacin_en_el_salvador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuruvapozixix/91678872775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64a970f1-7373-4692-9ff4-8f538ebac159/30062878877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7db5ad8a-9f57-4f6f-a56e-fa40f074c43a/how_to_use_vsepr_to_determine_molecular_geometry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f37ecd5-e8c4-48cd-a0c2-765afb2f72c5/56569757210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rimejiguvif/cuanto_mide_un_cuarto_de_pulgada_en_centimetros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8fab716e-6dd0-4f67-815f-af6c3f609f4c/1136158585.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_off00011713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11713 5196 bytes
SHA-256: f8dec26e01001b9acd2aed79c01e813396e333b5825d91a5d689918730b7a560
font_01_sfnt_off000128cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CB 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 3d29f5f3f6bd05ede070422fed937a4f14a27209e675d7ded994a9616c8fc9e8