Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af01291485e11499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99aa9ecce338f70ac6eb57282ef8382c SHA-1: dfdfe180f163dbb6a9f5719dac203e4d61f5d058 SHA-256: af01291485e1149932b3ae01db6fe489530b883b896b55c3bcfbd15a222b0a66
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm with numerous external URIs, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of 'wkhtmltopdf' in the metadata and the nature of the extracted URLs point towards a campaign designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/6647842379.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/lunulapivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svilia.restavracia02.com/userfiles/file/wujilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/21956187035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/25440049289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/67370280160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/fepiwapetunosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78186d5b3df48606334b71471fa2ce8/zamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/24128341796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/93078645398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/dikefozirimuxelirekezeteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/57807094364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqualibramontois.be/fckdownload/file/buduterudujalowutadiwuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/34643539403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210908083227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/netima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60295328140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/54935416516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/81373244431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovotabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/50925388620.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/zedirazogitusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/87752447842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynurseIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=black+symbols+copy+and+pastePDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FD 15860 bytes
SHA-256: 17a07984684bf841d20f18fd5401b1ef714592a83c66cfde22a9127782ffb75e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC1 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0d80bd4ccb3c3c8bace8a0b84edfde09592949642741b903eefafd70c94c82