Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c34948b95c8719d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-05-12 12:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e68e94267f9e33bae8f60d5fc9cefe83 SHA-1: 0caafb70daf9f34ae05e9601f6721be016c31000 SHA-256: c34948b95c8719d60807b7d68a9dda4aa9d03daaeeb783d1b28eb5208705f38f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to external URLs such as 'https://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=is+the+stock+exchange+open+on+july+3rd' and 'http://sutezesibopixiv.medianewsonline.com/public_administration_in_tanzania.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content, further supporting the link-based attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=is+the+stock+exchange+open+on+july+3rd PDF link annotation
    • http://sutezesibopixiv.medianewsonline.com/public_administration_in_tanzania.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490369/normal_60262e8530351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374860/normal_604647691f48a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laluwaraselolar.mywebcommunity.org/53004612615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393514/normal_5ff7f4b9b2d2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418362/normal_603970597d26b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolukuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739437/siwebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pisufixefonof.scienceontheweb.net/breast_cancer_project.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotulamopusojo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465369/3150534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedalejurozawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776692/dabotovutibusa-daxopimadapife-lomolisamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494874/normal_5ff0c0050d9bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tifalexax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471923/damatule_zakezajejodi_likezesetuvut_rugaravoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462980/normal_6046d7a7e6339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409420/normal_605ef63727ddd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d67926d6-99fe-48a4-938f-95006fdf2de6.filesusr.com/ugd/21d82e_61fe01128eee401796dab7050729bc50.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6ddb26ad-aa8e-4a3e-a925-5cef6fc035e1.filesusr.com/ugd/d3d820_3a1d9bea24a7478795ad6ace997f5941.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ff19a39e-637c-4fc6-80cc-750024e8dd37.filesusr.com/ugd/d217e2_7a8cd8b6fa3847e98fd63b5bfa654855.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fubavinexazixo.onlinewebshop.net/bright_line_eating_cookbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b3e6fb6-03df-4dea-ad97-c21cb5516044/buying_a_business_checklist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/682b47a6-648c-4487-a790-0aaf23c75b4f/kapalanilegipolisomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://80c8fd16-4cf8-4f9f-b52b-d6c956df8f3b.filesusr.com/ugd/1a94e8_afe931c29c5e4e9a8754cac7127079ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1ff8abe-7b7f-4038-ae47-f5802644893d/zadudijatawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samajusinifako.atwebpages.com/gokuvekizorabupuloganenud.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_off0000ecba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBA 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 73cccfc63b4f22eb4bef992c0cfd0e9fd57788c49400bad4b029becccd699d91
font_01_sfnt_off00010059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10059 11536 bytes
SHA-256: f0b74a67743059f4d0d9936725d4bd4f04807815f20f69bfef651d9669bd66ec