Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62d707aa575edd06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 02:06:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7d600cb13afd8d0881e111049f9982d4 SHA-1: e4bc432736fbbb47fcee3f28991c2b4eedc157a6 SHA-256: 62d707aa575edd06ccdcb21d32abcdfa5086a870849313ddedf81ebe7f9bfb68
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct domains, many of which are unknown or potentially malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/67041966713.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/2362724644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajmason.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27484700577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/pigamapulemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38875114609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/sizesuvogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/3276295056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czminghe.com/upload/files/lavunujalemiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/varujujobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godsownproperties.com/userfiles/file/62921826545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210924_070245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/73551409651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e50e721752---88293255564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/72399930908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/xixarilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/96822246903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091607013793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-23/20210923011221831575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/nusizukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109180918358910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/dagixejujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/91867311620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=samacheer+kalvi+6th+social+science+bookPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB063 17048 bytes
SHA-256: e7a2f4eb8a65e3d22691a2852e1bee00d5c6b761fb9d5d66cfb9dde7a2d47912
font_01_sfnt_off0000db94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB94 11036 bytes
SHA-256: fa92aca0d1f31fb8cb41c2d74425f321d3ceca207460ed9fef2d16ba89112546
font_02_sfnt_off0000f511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF511 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1