Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a44e191fe8be54ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-03-10 06:42:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 10071cbaaecdb3688e5912599eae9384 SHA-1: 7bc77512a4e0ff845eb09d0c768a70eb4fb8e4f5 SHA-256: a44e191fe8be54ad190f8f560bfa1873301d64c36b8534eb4b9bfc7c43a7b935
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'plate tectonics lab activity answers' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://seumenha.ru/wix?keyword=plate+tectonics+lab+activity+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://vashobereg.com/general_medical_council_guidelines_consentw8eqg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jisorozasakima.iblogger.org/mosusifajezonimete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456166/normal_5fd13906f1025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ita-bio.space/contemporary_behavior_therapy_spiegleragljq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454172/normal_5fe699e211b34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgesheff.xyz/23791773474832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480899/normal_5fe0f46a93c31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4fe85328-8dbf-40e9-afa8-2c8d6ff8a9c8.filesusr.com/ugd/9c0842_2d22f164f8cb40ec861a4fb7e98c270c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9c12218e-e157-4070-b33f-4467b3cb42bb.filesusr.com/ugd/0c60a0_694af301483b46a6b2fcfc4c18ce321a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a519209a-2b0a-481f-9fe9-460c873bdc80.filesusr.com/ugd/270e53_31517921daec4d89971bc4079ee6ca8e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7b4e975e-109f-4397-a679-93e438ff1453.filesusr.com/ugd/c33f71_8fcff945a66f4a8eac51b8714c4e822d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://101c3d73-5e22-4da1-a203-a3a2a794ce88.filesusr.com/ugd/69a512_c5a5985654504d409dc27cd8e92e3f56.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d11d86e6-e9b5-4f96-a89c-a96cdd32cec8/how_did_hitler_rise_to_power_so_quickly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0fc0baf9-b884-4fcd-968e-f93c0f938930.filesusr.com/ugd/68ec51_155f029ecf1f4a78829e58f72a027749.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://161abad2-7de2-49bb-9904-d6e2a620a662.filesusr.com/ugd/2eec94_8737f11baa99485b8e7f108928b9e7cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0d27c95-ab7a-4c8a-b876-fff83607f2a3/hillsborough_county_school_bus_schedule_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d8d691c7-cf48-432b-bece-a54604b57851.filesusr.com/ugd/1e3a4b_b5302c362731419f9466607bd99bf1eb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://letupekego.rf.gd/free_ela_worksheets_for_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2f84f82-56ca-4dc0-b288-aa1c324c6c71/48920960484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2061f665-9309-41a6-981d-137229ee7e60.filesusr.com/ugd/eb2fe6_49c207615e824a6f896947c33946b71e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45b0b119-5f8c-43e7-b437-4e12d17c1c81.filesusr.com/ugd/3826db_79d39320b82749b0b300df22c21822cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b3eecf5-0983-4ede-b15f-6a19fc7c0e11/gitopuvokujejoreru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tejoratu.epizy.com/does_home_depot_have_employee_discounts.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000134b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B1 5188 bytes
SHA-256: dd6bf9ae1eae970ac270046fcf886d32317b6bffd814b3efa9b0bc9b26717434
font_01_sfnt_off00014681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14681 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 868fdac6f9ee534be2e9d26ead96a153f81252ce4bf20d5b5ec627058e6738f4