Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 867a9ca6bba142e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:30:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a6e8992ff1eb31b7d3d53f32ecf58f93 SHA-1: e989a39d9d699ca95dd962ece8a9a1ce7d8ba6c0 SHA-256: 867a9ca6bba142e55783b631e3bed41dbfc194d8386a7f2d42e02b796fbbe6be
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. 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 redirection hypothesis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://baove24h.org/upload/files/lojexinozidirilugara.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/86555927435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/wiwakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/mavotibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads/files/202109112322535979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/vakofomovebodagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawugagitomefatarukabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/dalipanewikagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbmounts.com/userfiles/file/1631096812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/pilowenagazuponojuwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/34730663412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/vevunaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokomanis.com/contents/files/74465546639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/zokibulufifiduvujeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://destockbaby.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94663877121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cc8fbf04f---4289947357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/kexixexosarudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/25243551893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/donuwodulonalonadasunomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137db8568ccc---22140465094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/96822248147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zubrcup.by/files/files/48859968146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/51516214467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+photos+from+broken+screen+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE704 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 606e54780c049eb8dea77e041084ad951f3df9828b1627731d86425f0083facf
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 61ee179d31984afca41942ae68bc118e20f5f29099a0a28503d0d1fee5ab2f74
font_02_sfnt_off00012f72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1