Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c06843209b9231c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-04-03 01:23:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: cf3f653770a26dcc0c4d734656107f8c SHA-1: 4d30d6041f2dd54a7196319f4b344a5a7c7a250a SHA-256: c06843209b9231c5946db35b6928a0584dca8746a4b1f56fa80eb2d43a38d350
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to drive traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, but no direct instructions or lures are discernible from the readable portion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=quantum+physics+problems+and+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dupujemewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040979/zarijel-pedopilisugo-zasozox-topisakusifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464702/normal_5fdb56980b827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408991/normal_604e4e734af71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiseguvugele/jhciaPp/wait_a_minute_who_are_you_button.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/disumuneriva/3gggcq1/ant_factory_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453732/normal_5fdb99fd6bedb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogipemefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471158/wumow-pukeruzegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelatotagubas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813077/c43899b9d02a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470405/normal_60678ad13c49a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://709e7e89-b264-4d73-b757-064736ed86f1.filesusr.com/ugd/f523c3_3a0b54419128411a8e6f8a2311b60191.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9170d309-caca-4186-8987-bf6b40ce219c.filesusr.com/ugd/baef12_c32b4b3ca7c14f9d8eedf39ddefd9b59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wovitiku/xemiximadoxawasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0502d5d0-a0f5-47b8-bc1c-644c46e4e431.filesusr.com/ugd/6cabbb_f65a0ba648d840eaa7d402e09f6252ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/napisakaluja/calendario_escolar_malaga_2019_20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3557a179-a1ee-4801-a209-85ad6f504536.filesusr.com/ugd/9c409a_0aa4f0a536a645d78884fc0cf36f0525.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ddf64d59-5240-4154-9987-17dfc28e22c7.filesusr.com/ugd/cec570_4c76ad4a080d40cdb3395542537aadf0.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
    • 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_off0000c9b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9B2 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 7324c9af586b05d43e2c655527eb868c6699b92f11c8d19da4d56ed15f27c25a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE8 11328 bytes
SHA-256: d0cf24b325dfad025a2d2fd9551c9bacc993d79d84466476a0d3622ce13fce80
font_02_sfnt_off0001038a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038A 16324 bytes
SHA-256: d7c1c9e5d4144c258cac2b2adf0def6d1eb1573a354a934a81fc0e398e07eb04