Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb64a0fbf8f4cbb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-03-06 08:48:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: b41ead682e22b3b48f78ec93f983c6d4 SHA-1: 5a5c77be75f57ecd7f23bd64b22795c852b00bdc SHA-256: cb64a0fbf8f4cbb05dc8e6bfe1e7c1fd2410e12b97e6c895a1601511bc3ab5fb
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, but the primary malicious intent is derived from the heuristic firings indicating a PDF link farm and phishing attempts. The presence of external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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://baarspo.ru/aws?utm_term=hemoglobin+a1c+blood+sugar+chart PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443337/normal_60277b4f4a042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386095/normal_6016432eee253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/karelevo/zmjjAjf/befojiwoweruvironoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478422/normal_603830c3e3ffe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xanovixewin/0ijjdij/pukelami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sewizefaxiki/iekjh3u/notibeludagotakutozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444636/normal_5fd9cf953195c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406516/normal_601bd00317ac9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417214/normal_5fe08d2d30a26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421048/normal_602283d7abdfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raxuzuvuluf/qm95iiE/lomukumevewokitazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409098/normal_602302915dd63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385004/normal_602c1e038562c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vifamepupib/cJHjiSm/72885161275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kewuxejikiwe/silicon_valley_episode_guide_season_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://13fad4bf-7224-44b3-802b-16842e97d241.filesusr.com/ugd/b14664_950a469a9f334c73940ebb5a31b6c5e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6776ac3f-883f-499f-bc52-38dff818ec46.filesusr.com/ugd/969751_f82198db71844cd0b6817d30b1c9fd94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://feedbc21-cb93-402c-9ae2-3476589645d2.filesusr.com/ugd/f3ecbe_3ba2cfd2aa3445fb89daf6fd2a84b15d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cf176ec6-4820-456b-adf9-61e5f06c968f.filesusr.com/ugd/43d598_a5d67612a4384a5ca6a22ef0af89aa53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5e3b32e6-a537-4a58-a531-ef303a468713.filesusr.com/ugd/120874_1de1c3b5e312453fbc0633782d71ca80.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zakunafu/72806212475.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_off0000f744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF744 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 0670dce7b0af2b5d802d4ae83480888a9b8a12440e04ee292b53159f37efbbb4
font_01_sfnt_off000109cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CC 10496 bytes
SHA-256: da077d77f51658fd6fab7164080bc2c27d419eb2cdde3e5847fca4bb130fd736