Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ff5445dc3f851c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-05-15 20:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 98f3e792df39264cf83b51e7a007e37d SHA-1: 27931dd07be96f1e763eedbbd55a4f493a3cf68f SHA-256: 5ff5445dc3f851c0baa80111f1945062e0383f61ffc961c1d1da1dfece71955a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggests a link farm or phishing infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', indicating it was likely generated by a tool rather than being a legitimate document. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=common+roadside+flowers+uk PDF link annotation
    • http://domsale.xyz/nebirupapipinedamiqjs34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371791/normal_5ff20bb690296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxinesupiva/jhhhgik/puraruxiwujolivofunugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423148/normal_604a578eb9e4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebets.xyz/how_to_train_your_dragon_the_hidden_world_toys_light_furyluhv7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383916/normal_6049f51378b60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496816/normal_5fef4df35b6c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mozopojugode/ghhaied/drone_remote_control_distance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391636/normal_603f218b69f0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393751/normal_6035ac1df11ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nagebagem/9Kgfgip/fuwojivava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/taxosavasesa/kWsDE7A/visual_studio_code_formatter_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503390/normal_603c4e1e1cc55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/viwedanej/hd7gg3J/service_properties_trust_news.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c923972-c857-4cf4-9f9b-b2683b03f767/39501549428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumubogapem.epizy.com/36438666153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33ad41d3-4957-4bca-bcb6-1bc61caef4c0/why_is_my_liftmaster_not_closing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23051dc1-f3dc-4437-922d-00e244c0c6e3/90126709477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niserikotul.rf.gd/what_two_animals_compete_for_the_same_food.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serozefa.epizy.com/wordpress_wp-admin_page_not_loading.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemaponodo.epizy.com/1998_honda_shadow_1100_aftermarket_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c346c2af-b0e1-4d6e-b796-c7234f53a57c/ab_powerflex_700_programming_manual.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_off000101b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B2 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 5be416d0984bf86d70d9320b84894bcfa5a3de225353a1ee2114a59daab95c97
font_01_sfnt_off0001130e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130E 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4ba2a5537619d22fe9c087ac59447b225f383379dde9367d3af2535df83bef