Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce387a79e40b1494…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-02-13 02:04:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: ab0216f47f19441c53290cba1dc0693b SHA-1: cc40726fd8cb06267ebadbe8ee3d2fc1f905d1f3 SHA-256: ce387a79e40b14947a9c46e1b927763bf93c3726922ec31284198ae847259dc6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, possibly indicating it was generated for SEO spam or to obscure malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://crophysi.ru/123?utm_term=descalcificador+culligan+medallist+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://kotasixunepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776076/69f79a36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xexonukomamub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134353621/1923345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fasixazijaz/ijZgigd/51890874558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451542/normal_5fd7d809ad34d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wapuvalapowa/iibJerV/bukegutokizukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofokamibe/hfifwhg/reverso_classic_large_lug_width.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tosobulig/hhfgg9O/49462414801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kogeledewafo/iYjihhE/hockey_playoffs_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422378/normal_5fdb372e331f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412170/normal_5fe1b1a46e2bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusifasuroxeso.22web.org/14142205326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ratevusur/iaihbHx/pac_man_ball_game_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pubupamosala.epizy.com/global_reinsurance_market_report_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/simujix/amazon_prime_music_to_android_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/panalipolifod/gulepevumaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/takurugilij/54926577651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudowo/alfresco_rest_api_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verafewema.rf.gd/99308417240.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_off0000e36e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36E 5340 bytes
SHA-256: f4e6580df880c550625e3a1c765b7d959de967c0d5950d7590894ae58dd5309c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF586 11604 bytes
SHA-256: 9307f82680d747ce7e8a9cb07792c31a834e3e496eb8d85aa2b73e7dc187b730