Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db6a9990ba2b87f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-05-04 13:40:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: cca9209ede2d120957f68248d7ea942e SHA-1: 33ee0eef21c1197bd604c3b5625cea3fde0b0a8a SHA-256: db6a9990ba2b87f1781ccabc41a1b4e15d407fd7648988905c551fd5c47b656e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to dispute resolution and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's a generated document. Numerous URLs are embedded, many pointing to disposable domains and link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests the intent is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 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://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+manage+dispute+resolution PDF link annotation
    • http://sfr-espace.best/joxugaxewuruxalufenotobojd44l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mifodirula/jfRjjkl/woxidunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webomiwizux.22web.org/compuestos_inorganicos_agua_y_sales_minerales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/simikitivo/dglVfXh/snake_in_the_grass_lyrics_little_prince.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevfikyuce.xyz/pinuxasavajep7o32h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straponartist.com/76613599239zuz6w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jugepawe.medianewsonline.com/wages_for_housework_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/teposodigar/cDhihcn/muse_healthcare_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zememor.sportsontheweb.net/fusebofezesijunori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nout-prokat.website/steam_calculator_marketdajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonder-ita.fun/tepebebasokapobejibul5o4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabavawuzafurur.mygamesonline.org/56503174639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoguno.onlinewebshop.net/agriculture_extension_education_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cb6d8354-940b-4e05-9f1d-0150973ab277.filesusr.com/ugd/882da0_7bda75f5ede24fb4baecb5ce80c68a4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3434753-cf2e-4677-8a1d-e8c70bd1799c/1725918283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c216880a-03a2-4774-ab7e-121c93799e8f.filesusr.com/ugd/b5aed9_98175d52e2394ba3990cf20a06cbbd73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9a89a7da-ede3-42eb-a537-7416be21eb2d.filesusr.com/ugd/aaaf79_50f1da55af3c4e5f9b515530b1cbf2e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ea0a6730-5b47-42bc-899c-5b27b21b32ea.filesusr.com/ugd/184298_9c5f7f7a1cb54f7eb631fa92f6f86752.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xikabufozajo.rf.gd/the_backyard_homestead_seasonal_planner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarovagovoz.rf.gd/53895977439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c84ffda1-e72a-45fa-8ce8-a771970cf326.filesusr.com/ugd/9fd656_441bbec5533748b6abf7efa5453d30d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab10d842-b5fa-4cd8-a9b1-8db812ee2782/33409402496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be93658b-94db-40b2-96ca-181d7aba2478/excellence_el_carmen_punta_cana_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d0b2199-911f-4c5c-b90e-285aa2fa202d/41539173676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a18c05b-d820-4ebe-b516-15c2389d2867/kuteletuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwanuzoniwod.rf.gd/demographic_dividend_in_bangladesh.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_off0000fbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD5 5332 bytes
SHA-256: b844947fa8cde1e526476fcd925232deef30de6040a52b727492640430088d14
font_01_sfnt_off00010ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DED 10632 bytes
SHA-256: f3189bc39c86a72dbb1358770d8ceab58c306992de59eff897fff30be7ae837a