Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63333ad571dade24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-03-24 03:50:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: db9ecea102078c784553ab5cf347d2f3 SHA-1: b6f57fb1fad6f316cb1dfd78f309f9221e0cb6f4 SHA-256: 63333ad571dade24079d37ef5f52f2e03cef56b5e1dea0ea2beeb3c77e75ca61
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains text related to 'Journalism interview questions and answers' and mentions 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URLs suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to other sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://fokemale.ru/123?utm_term=journalism+interview+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4444098/normal_5fc64cdec03c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trastenmyqort.online/bidajopoxezaluwovomogud70od.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutaluxunenore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740368/1335009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vabijerokajesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595953/faviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486363/normal_60329be3f3b8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omerkatanalp.com/how_much_does_a_management_information_systems_major_makeioszq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comforfemj.fun/what_is_the_value_of_cos1800mqx7x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389107/normal_601f9afa7b064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370543/normal_5fdbb3f32d1ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paypallsecurity.com/extinction_level_event_bandhby4x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-igsupport.com/kenelezunak9jyj7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudabipepapob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134672750/mubozotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lofefogurabu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164054/fidowoximabur_vejijukor_wazukibipe.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/019ace54-bd72-4712-bc2d-094c486c21a5/20355720801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86bd4a9f-cb59-4ff2-b70a-3b477c0a2a28/82409836750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8157552b-d160-41e0-8b00-babab9a4852f/ruzebugadimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f8b56e8-b524-45fb-8d64-3814540c2403/quadra_fire_wood_stove_ratings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bb09840-54a7-4188-804f-29ab7754eb17/29917178298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96acb36d-a721-461e-9a92-d739d4f74bf2/toyota_camry_hybrid_2020_price_in_pakistan.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_off0000fa69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA69 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 9922268929d60f51e1925bc7ab0c99d15e562418040b6d06e6ea61b234dfd9db
font_01_sfnt_off00010c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C32 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 1c1e12e7316826ec65cb3d1339c137232c8b7bddd7e7a67d385c063814a14976