Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df6432ba72ae5486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-03-21 06:37:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 4dcd88a943be870d7d6c83bafa55e464 SHA-1: 7d19b5925030b963366c8658ba7e27b839f9749c SHA-256: df6432ba72ae54864a58380cc52b1806c644f1e707b17bc59dd2fb8fd072951d
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 pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create SEO-optimized PDFs for link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=geometric+progression+class+10+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://giderolimarova.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134098849/918806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waboralitenir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134504299/120567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napepoxamugif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997580/telipimokasiv-guvugenox-fudasaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wezefumuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134614004/zixuxugite-vozafireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamubediva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901044/12201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heliusdesign.ru/55843462024fvkeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svoylend.xyz/book_of_enoch_giants_heightdu6dx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pesulomerusetus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109359/zilomeninoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazazujusuvazix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856432/kajodufifixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islemleriniz.org/37379346193qyaef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajagewuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134350503/puwaraf_suriwijowirod_gagovorotogagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixelbarista.com/55084035754vfx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakukuvirukum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874631/70c7e.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/wujixus/39089189639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://82656f1f-dd0f-4426-89ca-c5688288f975.filesusr.com/ugd/56de54_bda3acae853a4391accde1ce486e3a34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8271b8e8-1520-4b18-8785-2fafc8cd33e6.filesusr.com/ugd/efc97f_2c151595a4fc43438f66d957c68bfa49.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jipowumat/bose_wave_radio_5_cd_changer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f4dd034e-00c7-465c-b850-fb2d75accad5.filesusr.com/ugd/769f78_6fc04443c84d44c285cfecdc47458e74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pusori/ketuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c2c662fa-00ac-4c69-bf5d-04da7d6c99e2.filesusr.com/ugd/9b33c5_53ccf047ea4642b29159fdf3e204f84f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nunakixuma/90653867997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penefelomiju/90578802983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://528f6e5c-6927-42ef-b7a5-a8f9c349750c.filesusr.com/ugd/07b979_41e96c3c39834c999e4728a489894ba9.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C8 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 2af38bab69aecc8ab0ea979d346dd70975ef38efabbe8b2b50645c22d50231dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10523 11720 bytes
SHA-256: ca98993c80c4279d66dc348a852516b4a57eebd7cc8a834dcddbfcba1c740abe
font_02_sfnt_off00012cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CDE 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 51b8d4c4f17389d80b23040d591c0dccb099bca9103ea84f58116e310badbe13