Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac27a6486b8cfec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-03-07 04:27:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 2fc4d33f8bcc2d6088bd60c3d128be50 SHA-1: 2689bfc7d565944cc7248baa481f5e43c323baeb SHA-256: ac27a6486b8cfec8c2ccedfe2d21b59a04e4348518d2def042e1b9cffd3d63c8
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Vanity Fair series full cast' and 'wkhtmltopdf', likely as lures to direct users to malicious URLs such as https://vilenefex.ru/strik.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=vanity+fair+series+full+cast PDF link annotation
    • http://socialwave.me/o_que_fazer_aps_terminar_um_relacionamentog3svr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujubow.getenjoyment.net/wewezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pefiworawodud.mypressonline.com/best_online_blackjack_for_money_usa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graatorama.space/kipujinejemivo5jm9t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobufupevujuma.mygamesonline.org/what_is_skeet_choke_on_a_shotgun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonhq.xyz/feeding_hannibal_a_connoisseurs_cookbook_recipes0durz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trynutra.shop/dosegur08xde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvyovk.xyz/ubiquiti_nanostation_m5_datasheet8qrd2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folivapizi.66ghz.com/canon_eos_rebel_t3_1100d_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koxivesuvif.mypressonline.com/how_to_remove_the_quick-connect_sprayer_hose_on_a_pfister_faucet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d872ce2a-2baf-4032-ab86-ab75b2f66d52.filesusr.com/ugd/338562_743a8f248f7045baa79417d1c6bd6748.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://14da0a27-f261-4d4b-8668-3a369f5c966d.filesusr.com/ugd/46429b_b0118866dce043a9aa827f929deaa930.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a2149e7-ca7f-4e7c-a584-0e483de6f3af.filesusr.com/ugd/9219f8_cdfb8717651e48a0a4ccc703a07d30b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://601bead5-a720-4f65-98db-62fe2a42cb91.filesusr.com/ugd/0e52b4_31223a6fe3ac4116823d9af9629d2a44.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://56148a0a-83a3-4003-94ff-78d3044b7c00.filesusr.com/ugd/6f5f23_d53976fc74e7404f979653dea6527146.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jalebuvubo.myartsonline.com/gudevezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2045277-6418-4a33-b527-2abedd86be99/twas_the_night_before_christmas_voice_actors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotuziput.epizy.com/xopupexetotafawuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7b4e975e-109f-4397-a679-93e438ff1453.filesusr.com/ugd/c33f71_ef84810036bb4b1099a308c016d6d597.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cfd0d333-1239-4500-ac95-a8b93a8773ea/asp.net_mvc_selectlist_set_selected_value.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/507cd236-1d7f-474d-ab1e-133028a2da83/84272456537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cae2aa39-5014-47ec-b549-0fed73f36d02.filesusr.com/ugd/c8683e_c914f303c22248dea12b3f72cffe943b.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_off0000fa0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0F 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc3722641471c511554c315c7570a22ef9d83f7a67b55e3d1512ce1d1e3a013
font_01_sfnt_off00010afe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFE 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7a107399e57ad920ef31cc624807384e4f04c1ecfa37781db3f606cef4214a