Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a04be3ed2d9d66ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-03-14 20:31:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 95400ae155b411b099b366845a9de15e SHA-1: 6a273a8af30316ce1556cda72af18326b0d3ec0c SHA-256: a04be3ed2d9d66ced18a2b876ee412575d13ca360c510de286a640b1965e646b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Walter's guide' and 'wkhtmltopdf', potentially serving as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=walter%2527s+guide+to+the+magus PDF link annotation
    • http://hackins.site/kawesurotitoserofq2jf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotosutafizal.iblogger.org/vimezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtmedis.com/joxirokotexawutiposapqrif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedbadgeshelpcenters.net/nerefugunolusmgor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argo-tourism.com/351179195979mf28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-ita.space/71600842244li9jp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogranicbio.fun/lefuzutijexosagakyd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarokinsta.online/how_to_repair_a_mcculloch_chainsawh4g0t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedevolopi.iblogger.org/astrophysics_for_someone_in_a_hurry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strongcreditscore.info/graphing_rational_functions_worksheet_and_answers95g3t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it50disconto.info/95303958982428sz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisitens.online/microsoft_word_format_painter_shortcut_keynqoqr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagidevivuvu.22web.org/tukinowekilipukopaza.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/4e66b88a-42c6-467e-8c58-135c7f26ce98/35682145653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://35b1a599-9f45-4897-82ce-59a931fc5495.filesusr.com/ugd/daca0d_5ecc900b5de143e18eb0d845e124c561.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03e03fe3-1544-4166-9771-5b52c2a4194d/taletar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tededuliwe.rf.gd/echo_leaf_blower_pb-250ln_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xadezifu.rf.gd/48110910971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb413987-6e77-4bf1-aaa6-e97eb550fbee.filesusr.com/ugd/108936_419b59b4c9714041940a5f85a614c77f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jodaniti.epizy.com/55361824223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/07f38947-0f5b-44b7-916b-ee9e90101c09/el_ser_y_la_nada_resumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b14e741-3166-4c1c-a570-cf3befb6cb2f/2004_volvo_xc90_repair_manual_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf9d948a-867d-4ece-918d-2f816abc2007/how_does_propane_auto_changeover_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://03dfb0eb-7fe6-4188-ad87-ea2b88df7b19.filesusr.com/ugd/f967ac_6e8492856a724b5888a386b62c9b89c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://74269c25-1731-4359-90d4-804f54ef9c1c.filesusr.com/ugd/b5973a_94357fa5e2d34202a7d6089e023c17f8.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_off000115f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F0 5284 bytes
SHA-256: f4faa56def472090f4ee541f424e1b7e2ee87724a3523a4b65ad1c5c75e76c77
font_01_sfnt_off000127cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CD 11680 bytes
SHA-256: 535070c34c88e44236b1e12d5e1dd6ec13c3230502005efa2c888614280fa6e9