Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 824b81bc690c047b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-04-01 06:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 78e49ee4c8fa6261d6f3c0020a8fc683 SHA-1: 24c69a18e260430a04fd89b9ffe714d16bc6530e SHA-256: 824b81bc690c047b6b383c4878384ee115e7d5fbc3de259a6bde9a55116a31fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many of which are generated in a pattern suggestive of an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a mass external PDF link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'basic thai phrases pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure. The presence of external URLs, including one that appears to be a phishing attempt, suggests the document is used to redirect users to malicious sites or to manipulate search engine rankings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=basic+thai+phrases+pdf
    • http://lbaranaydin.com/ohio_northern_campus_mapwrtsq.pdf
    • https://buvelixajotoneb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135982000/8998719.pdf
    • http://minuzin.22web.org/hayward_chlorinator_cl200__cl220_lid_wrench_opener_tool.pdf
    • http://upsbox.ru/zezunuriwewgstig.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445869/normal_5ff709ee005ef.pdf
    • https://ratofesut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304008/8034436.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446287/normal_5fdbb073c94f1.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411683/normal_60327c1c0e02b.pdf
    • https://wuvekodufunat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298648/4783088.pdf
    • https://tewosafaxuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379700/5982211.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374376/normal_5fdf5c16d1da3.pdf
    • https://rikekipodoze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776447/dujesu_xamerapi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liwafo/teachers_day_2018_images_free.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gotitibekovi/76910638202.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rorives/66640044876.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mawesenasijoser/avery_business_card_template_pages.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bibejovixapis/lifugeku.pdf
    • http://kifagugurubox.rf.gd/32061533583.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemigiduwagafu/headless_horseman_jack_o_lantern_template.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/besafefaf/14248256356.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinisemowoge/interview_guide_questions_qualitative_research.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f486.bin
a65c76dfc4117ff27178addd02601378e22259ce4fd420c5c788c640d8d73a03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF486 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010500.bin
5848647d6e7cb312cb51bc139a3743d8b91de88a474abc6b7daf9aa9dd6c9aec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10500 11456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8a.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8A 4324 bytes