Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca68c34bb25e186e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-03-05 09:43:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: fde9c4948aa4f017c6c6e007e1ba3138 SHA-1: 35bc1623248af1511c3eba59c43c087f4c6e9d03 SHA-256: ca68c34bb25e186e57bae955376c0fae50c04860ce10a8622160bf723366e1c0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'ethical hacking books best' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, indicating a lure to entice users to click on the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://resalured.ru/aws?utm_term=ethical+hacking+books+best PDF link annotation
    • http://jofifuneku.medianewsonline.com/fantastic_beasts_and_where_to_find_them_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nekuwagibajese.getenjoyment.net/57491242633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revugegan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134682990/f169795368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davupopebuwiser.sportsontheweb.net/buluselarozujazinepole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokilupijavep.22web.org/tonenodamibuwowagurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogemopisita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776015/baviwesibimunu-gavoja-notudusukiwudef-rapotokepipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legiontry.online/sierra_30-30_load_datazrcze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupirevedog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134709422/7f8c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mipirizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682564/dexil_pebolumi_totigixew_fujuxeretuvuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnl-jobs.com/sharp_lc-43lb371u_legs5otp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batut.space/4183302584u2s5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedadekenoz.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_turn_on_an_ipod_nano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamaded.mywebcommunity.org/wetugemabakaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorozetuwivu.medianewsonline.com/furman_or_panamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topasotasakaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874498/684f31e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d70b1dc8-7d09-4148-9854-e6a7cae1b87b.filesusr.com/ugd/5899d5_165aeee893584647aebe8052e824f9de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sabiwilurase.atwebpages.com/bepitezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokudaruriwiv.atwebpages.com/have_a_pleasant_day_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonobufusig.rf.gd/simple_website_design_templates_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zedofaxuboz.onlinewebshop.net/cisco_re1000_installation_software_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://05491ccc-77c7-428b-9c25-74f2c6c50d4a.filesusr.com/ugd/d51d36_3f9359367d8242569e1cb15e362db085.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6bfd3344-23d3-4e03-ab7d-00c1c23eecf6.filesusr.com/ugd/be19e1_5343909bdffd4e67af9b09012f8716d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sowezenuvafe.epizy.com/tozagegemekavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuxerutiwuv.onlinewebshop.net/18608616378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b564fea6-732e-489f-a029-a72dc6590de2.filesusr.com/ugd/6a4619_6dc2c4a1527f4e76ac1d54d20fa964de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rusakarazixano.epizy.com/bhalu_wala_game_wala.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_off00010269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10269 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 652dcbff569d3203f05166671d88bd3e56cf21dde072146242be98c61ecd3366
font_01_sfnt_off000113db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DB 11032 bytes
SHA-256: aa102e6843295e961291199767bfe057fc692c743f616ecc1773e46bec854050