Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91da06d8ed594429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0f0add19f96d81cd98095022842d2569 SHA-1: 32c1cf801b2cd26c94340fd090ee8cfc89051651 SHA-256: 91da06d8ed594429a65bdec0cf5cce5c91bf76d13ee828466be0cbaf9e54df58
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and using UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further supporting the malicious intent.

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=china+beauty+plus+camera PDF link annotation
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cdf6447cc7---92293718511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97503718252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_97A3D93C9C7B70BF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/2038267636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovofilm.cz/userfiles/file/ranukutasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didotisamivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/93166117192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agpbmdtf.xn--p1ai/upload/file/91602499505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinpayflow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86846795277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/tiwubafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/53727996775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fge-service.com/userfiles/file/40844462393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/5240512069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkatsov.com/userfiles/file/79568865151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralatravelpath.com/uploads/file/6415682364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/20278213271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/vegugupizejajijoguremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/94746611547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pierreseche.fr/userfiles/file/bolumonozofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/13473285385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161331fbdeb57b---66555912030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/16063619850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/31189269363.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://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_off0000d559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD559 21152 bytes
SHA-256: 007fa0888403190573b9cac60794af4703ac8533c07f29bdaee33663e31a92d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12543 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 6d8bd7574130c42ec659688ea3d8a99c690ea78f5a72bb9a94491ae67aec2724