Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8f5fd585341885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-03-24 08:53:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d5fa233b1cc55f742051a94fb1424c43 SHA-1: 21efe8a812a023fa4583309418cd68b9fb0e12f1 SHA-256: ca8f5fd585341885f2dea43bbf4883bd31a34b3749853e9513b663d863d06e40
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 multiple external domains, including suspicious ones like pelibifir.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', suggesting it was generated by a tool rather than being a legitimate document. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm nature strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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=linksys+router+ea6500+firmware PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vovawumusa/igid8ja/88721811576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seplafond.xyz/66493762821kg5jc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekusimije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383821/ziture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wekaradukuve/Wied7eP/3117492222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413983/normal_6016a8d3b78e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460476/normal_5ff3f11615717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toxodabatot/5jfXjiJ/55030755528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488807/normal_6000fd5f909f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jopomewimedadi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465277/bunibisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://znakomstva69.space/sagacious_crossword_answerjf7qe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com-signto2.xyz/spaceflight_simulator_1._5._02_modc7c3t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbaranaydin.com/bose_companion_2_speakers_for_tvam91f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/134c82b1-9c96-4e73-9c39-322a60078ab0/king_andrew_the_first_political_cartoon_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/199e46d6-4a5d-4926-81eb-46b7d8e9a760/23292835808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05a9b17e-2726-4791-b78a-e0e0e77a4d32/how_to_defend_in_street_fighter_4_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lekelepowo/maxobenewuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kobivimelelo/casio_g-shock_ga-100-1a1_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jewizopukuni/kenmore_elite_front_load_dryer_thermal_fuse_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/simujix/49769067028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd96c30d-bbb1-4353-bd3a-9995204c2b7f/7-2_word_problem_practice_similar_polygons_worksheet_answers.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_off00010099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10099 5500 bytes
SHA-256: ade0439d68541491f80ab7b1fcbc83065e07e341a4be7e56f7b3ded239d25146
font_01_sfnt_off0001135c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135C 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 2b2a82a3c3661a4d2f959bd69001182e556683194c4c4114c441ed25e1be74c3