Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abe4af38653039d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-04-09 20:08:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5d4f53d95869693320d9d6bbc72a10a4 SHA-1: ef0b7628aa0a965f752fd8bff2c89fe504f0181e SHA-256: abe4af38653039d55924b820e5fa3922df48c7469b327dcb269cb3fedc399462
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'predictive analytics jobs salary', likely serving as a lure to direct users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=predictive+analytics+jobs+salary PDF link annotation
    • https://dudunubute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134132035/3799252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibafowezibinax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319588/9950628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gawagunikuw/jeEUja0/throne_rush_hack_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zozijawutuxu/haibyhh/acrylic_nail_kit_with_drill_and_uv_light.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4493282/normal_5fcb7b3e7c45f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokulibom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266198/duxafunenonugur-vexebibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daliroxemonove.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775241/5a5ba5a3bb1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxusigeroles.sportsontheweb.net/78781185786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trydouche.xyz/ib_chemistry_textbook_2015l69ph.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desokore.medianewsonline.com/quantitative_research_designs_experimental_quasi-experimental_and_descriptive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoxajunun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351876/1612835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nawovoso/dhegegf/dopajisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xawobovuji/fjjihhe/58566940133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closemaze.com/how_to_navigate_dvd_player_without_remotey6tlt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477649/normal_60499faa91368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherrypimp.online/julosuvekm7pjv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391621/normal_606533b48e642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392862/normal_5fd37cb1567c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419001/normal_5fcbf0f91f82b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fb-copyright-help-from.com/dungeons_and_dragons_5th_edition_character_sheet_printable34rdd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/180bbd6f-5535-47f0-8a73-34101f5c5b44/givojosakenasefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sojufuka.atwebpages.com/alfred_adler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1aa812ae-0b34-466b-9fa7-44d7e20acc3d/food_safety_certification_florida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotizojorirepel.onlinewebshop.net/palm_reading_book_free_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7B 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 74601f4c06ffac926657f9c58c0fd7d14835cd3e2ef59debb1bc24a0084ffac9
font_01_sfnt_off000120e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E0 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 5ce507faf9304658457e7f702827190409c30e12d4cb3247ccbb1c79227670a8
font_02_sfnt_off000146ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146FF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230