Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5897a4cb6b3cfc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-04-03 20:03:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a14c6ba4df1686dd23211e1837175fb5 SHA-1: 6217697c1c3d497b8f948dc9c57dc8bb9cf9bd2c SHA-256: 5897a4cb6b3cfc8355d9444e31dfe185a225d1423dd6f105034b39094d942232
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, indicating it was likely generated programmatically. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=cronica+de+una+muerte+anunciada+capitulo+5+resumen PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/befozaxulot/bZhfha8/full_screen_whatsapp_status_video_download_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefazaturar/dijjgjC/lefurutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pidodalatip/glNhfgh/24909971457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482623/normal_605054ca23104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379220/normal_5ff7198c36e6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozabezadako.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134639332/wefusewuxeguguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koberowebajufom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096943/0e3aa0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/belumozobu/jijeggM/30339331967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473954/normal_604833d8dcc7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365601/normal_5fe75ab568569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevejepagog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688444/0ed63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/badaxiloru/dxjahgs/35178741839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/winogolelog/hhihMQC/zazapulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459479/normal_5ffbace57fac1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimuwosexiwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164043/4998580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogejizerabori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134763318/worabojala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368950/normal_6064b7185a3f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubikobilowopo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969089/6a2c3db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504922/normal_5fea265154477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423171/normal_6059190b42448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lefilima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/ragivojomidubuf_vimikexor_menubosasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487631/normal_600a4018e5cb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000109a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A1 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 0e5fd7b01f2df7492d3a8740ae67a5de04df98e7e538940c9ac61d3b5c445004
font_01_sfnt_off00011b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B59 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 2e0f278b851270f564d9c13e1c0ebc2b7ff766b39dcd4a7dde69a34c82f6ca7a