Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a834c3b0136890f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2020-12-26 20:30:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: df4f808c69650a258d2a3ae33fd1692e SHA-1: f2b41b724d1b9abaa573a0ec1136301c6792d89d SHA-256: a834c3b0136890f3b5617d393638daf434f7f24dcf84042731fbf01c428d526b
256 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a malformed exploit stream and a link farm, with one URL identified as an SEO redirector for a 'free-download phishing' lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it's generated by wkhtmltopdf. The presence of a 'Clipboard command execution lure' heuristic suggests the document may instruct the user to interact with the clipboard to execute commands, further indicating malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=spina+bifida+cystica PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xulawajikigi/S4e3PMg/yandex_browser_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478415/normal_5fa91063d63d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tiruxugajo/hggYihL/xebimaduvopisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408704/normal_5fe210e15366a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujiborabasovu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134590634/bezanusura-ximibotuzonud-wufirapoke-papas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jujirepak/jfjcHii/78922545844.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/a67bfd2e-6a94-4fe4-98a0-d47af057965b/rizogatovafegizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0724757c-9127-4ec2-b412-22abc23c166a/11813780716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/515c25d0-0ceb-4202-a6d3-7f12624f14da/texas_family_law_practice_manual_form_4-2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6886e418-0aa2-4e67-9412-10f942406064/tamajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e8cf24f1-4a64-4384-b9ac-069be5278e7c/wuwiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1672da72-55e0-41c8-8cbe-5beed962291b/69421430011.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_off0000e936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE936 5368 bytes
SHA-256: d4f6640b2be4f776c74655d83321d275897fbf8a8c0dd0823ee9c28dc758128f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8D 11856 bytes
SHA-256: 7f62c74a8f8f3392182e04fc90232b480f99f5cb2e99dc548a380e325ec4d48d