Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1ae838f5ffa9ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-01-14 23:30:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 94d438c12a0fca12357b375792d0f985 SHA-1: 9418ff8c813f15821791474dc8d10edb54dfb122 SHA-256: d1ae838f5ffa9ec5a41a24473431ec1d6bd989737a21aa7737827bec4e56dac6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, pointing to various domains. One such link is 'https://traffnew.ru/123?utm_term=jareds+wedding+bands'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, potentially to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 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.
  • 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://traffnew.ru/123?utm_term=jareds+wedding+bands PDF link annotation
    • https://ludodufapagita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616483/e47b1b37b4df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gufezitaxato/heijeam/8197518121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moviferu/ggy7qgc/watch_movie_with_friends_online_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/motuvitewodi/ihggfWg/18848555985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexanugujox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266496/jekituton.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/mojivikapeti/tent_groundsheet_halfords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bamepofewalada/bit_web_server_full_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitizopovopaso/introduction_to_sociology_anthony_giddens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fosagobomap/1464141774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nimuwet/koopa_paratroopa_mario_tennis_aces.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_off0000eae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE6 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 08ce1ebe92bf96127fd01204cab0a06630912cae72559db08b0396d3750df470
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA2 10660 bytes
SHA-256: fc0211b7c7bda02b9a5e235a233441dc7eb5f46ad168115eb20877a33ef1f809