Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52fd76c8861ee955…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-04-03 04:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 856e7117576d5125be66275d35c93b6f SHA-1: 2f9ac2e01c53033cde66da29050ecd0568df749d SHA-256: 52fd76c8861ee955873d5f0b0bb716559d08e3f1c90c5b4de6869c6c6efcdf8f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Agatha Christie Poirot episodes' and wkhtmltopdf, hinting at a lure to disguise the malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=agatha+christie+poirot+episodes PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatonabufule/chciDie/29607130127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zukasedu/fggjahf/22552651902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jonomivebotuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134683751/1524014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gasosivifug/BYidrgc/ps4_simulation_games_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekunesoru/jcphcOO/car_mechanic_school_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parafobosa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857791/5982319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebabozepevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966679/3145497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tatudawo/jgfjfgc/pixels_app_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuxonewebuke/fXgd5hi/jisovijobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xexerekija/dgd5qYF/nikutobipejumokizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kafekejanabex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740445/molugexudezuj_wiguxonufo_sukoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pozemake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/damim_xaretadoluxoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikabokuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134658058/dfff3b4ded2dc5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zojubexetiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316795/rifititejafafimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujezipiver.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610991/ligutunemudufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawilawuvibowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134401702/9002872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexulitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134132766/vumolivuzeza-bigizexidis-makuzoxubu-dumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wagomito/cjijxib/9495211037.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/jivuxo/automation_testing_interview_questions_toolsqa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/magapeguwabe/hpgasweb._hpcl._co._in_report_module.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_off000143ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CE 5292 bytes
SHA-256: ff90f75953ba9f189155dfc756324268551a9ebcbafb30a08675798278b9c6a4
font_01_sfnt_off000155cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155CC 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 0d487d826600221ab1b07e9357ecd1b47c902972ece69774e77228b4916ff4dd