Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac7e545af46bbbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 01:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ee7424d7b614bb66acecfa3cf4d31fc0 SHA-1: d2638c04efe09965c7bd50eb84cfd19605b189f9 SHA-256: ac7e545af46bbbe28fb946b1571aac5d328c37629eab2c430437e6af7c6e2a51
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/pbw?utm_term=nexus+2+expansion+packs PDF link annotation
    • https://kepiloxuxamife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740378/b0ed402a70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sejixegagetuta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969850/8108298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tozovugoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/zelifutomijuge-mewujoxalosub-jotavunusirusa-rofilodozukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xelemuzeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137501053/7885346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501385/normal_603e0818bacd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadebuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366374/3290809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://figunetu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353482/balogifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455890/normal_5fd0334fa65cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popoxalisasuper.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775362/pidelefajutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446285/normal_60362f051d365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479436/normal_6023e2ad7e16f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fineruliji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313455/getiwosana-kezapib-nasuvifokulabu-vowipokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jovegubegatok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318826/tomevaf_tirinukim_sutux_gapinakajivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4505839/normal_6027785124fc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivumabozado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134858695/jikavuvalebuwawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sozozuboz.pbworks.com/f/cinema_apk_without_ads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorunezagu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144579954/como_descobrir_a_senha_do_wifi_no_android_conexes_salvas_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebinowurut.pbworks.com/f/xawonukafanifamosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varulemenel.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144989403/bodibolixasinunubamivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamedivu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144665658/contrato_de_arrendamiento_simple_para_llenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dibesusajob.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144670086/juwumivedotusoxadirilire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorawako.pbworks.com/f/27736652816.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_off0000e7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BE 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 681fc70c82288f8e625f3e8cf1111606c24fff6f44c8ca071015768729918793
font_01_sfnt_off0000f900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF900 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 261be8235e93b883bf016db998e9a049120e60fc769adc06caef90ddb51e0224