Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 574f4eda9cd86a64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

158.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 06:54:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: efbd71925159683ab73cea776004d115 SHA-1: 24e1ccbed1f105222a6826609deff96d1f0389ee SHA-256: 574f4eda9cd86a64d6268a9c8a07a553363644e7a8aba35eea9e32c0ce5b2dab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and its classification as a link farm suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the idea that it's a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=wash+dc+metro+map+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373522/normal_6056ec5648a0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vefusujix/G1Vhe31/vuxabaruraken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwilofojifig.sportsontheweb.net/understanding_canadian_business.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoxaju.mygamesonline.org/the_book_thief_ebook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzotumefakorok.scienceontheweb.net/lulikazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451752/normal_600c467a17367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelupulofevabek.medianewsonline.com/pedufovaxekitom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuxekagapefe.mygamesonline.org/algebraic_expressions_test_grade_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bofogarabu/hfrJBgf/vozaregugufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://befotuke.mywebcommunity.org/sidapozazagaka.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/tuxenipup/active_and_passive_voice_sentences_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e6effa5-1275-4558-9e0a-eb9159223663/stress_management_lesson_plans_high_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/marimejerebo/vuvefukenukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kewakuko/regugitazenesatedise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0750bf9-976e-4f1b-8ff8-bed96794d1a5/lobupuduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2aa8d0c9-ae9d-480b-9b81-29aa1edb4110/20215948828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd00f5bc-64e2-4d62-b921-63b50fda5490/93009792864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lupebesu/25901983913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukokovevaz.atwebpages.com/xatamelijevazibapopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nisetekotixob.myartsonline.com/game_of_thrones_book_release_date_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9ba3eaa7-aded-4a64-8b5c-157b1e8ed21d/denubem.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_off00022bc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22BC7 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4c556b92a764a59b7640bf59f20d4279c145d0741e89d9683921fa93c8c28d
font_01_sfnt_off00023df0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23DF0 13028 bytes
SHA-256: b4ac8f1af5261246848ea41aa44302e66cff85e7acc18f010c253d7dd3de412f