Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66b2c2033479db32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.9 KB Created: 2021-05-01 15:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: ad0646ab9ee55edaa086dd94c290a780 SHA-1: 56e6fa2d6ee5829400baa664466f8574ba9c3fb1 SHA-256: 66b2c2033479db321b75b3be19ae1462fc7dcdaf45efef470ab1e5ad701c7cd1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary malicious URL identified is https://mezovuduw.ru/strik, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the phishing or redirection hypothesis.

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=who+is+nimue+lady+of+the+lake PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bejazerorod/Gpjiq04/14782690700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surigogalabilix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135961506/26a0158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376099/normal_5fd765c0500b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vozupowo/iNYJYjh/sufiputoduxoviguvesezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445742/normal_60610a3d1d97b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472788/normal_60257cb6247e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469831/normal_6011c31a5ed0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392441/normal_60210d2d93e95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412170/normal_6005842ebe8c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402000/normal_5fd6287309313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393358/normal_60415a6a6c498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4458413/normal_5ffb41fb50ba7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezubowaxax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640868/tenefezujuwila-wosedi-tubupin-mazimadomuxagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493549/normal_605884dbd2eac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450045/normal_5fdadbdb44b41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448733/normal_5fe768dd79c8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7835c217-6b95-46a1-915a-76cdebae3fe0.filesusr.com/ugd/debfb4_91e290a4b5e8438e93f361cb16c6cb24.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d3dd75b0-514a-4dbf-a1f7-973a5b421fb1.filesusr.com/ugd/5b46ec_acf482ccfe844c03947734c0033deb82.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ca7c05ed-d233-4774-9cf9-08ff86aa6c73.filesusr.com/ugd/b42fd6_10b1e4861e24412cbde53009fe4d0d5d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000178b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178B4 5228 bytes
SHA-256: dfdac06d3ff196478e2a1beb0e12a6f3258146e9a16ad1b91e2aaac42cef60a9
font_01_sfnt_off00018a70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A70 12372 bytes
SHA-256: 9ebec6e1ba4f3f5a38966cbdb55e461dd2e682752c5a06a1e0ef71d5e873f1b6