Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df6e4d46bea73257…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-04-02 14:31:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 4a0533f34df085e95572103d3673ca50 SHA-1: 7536cb8b3ca19c65b845dfd4c5ebd7780b14b614 SHA-256: df6e4d46bea732579e61f308c145061c1849a944928ac95119d1aac0e5f66ebb
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. The presence of 'powershell_2.0_download_vista_32_bit' in a URL and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' indicate a malicious intent to deliver a payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, often used to create SEO-optimized PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=adobe+premiere+pro+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sodaapp.pro/68712299642nbt4m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mklhhhh.space/windows_powershell_2.0_download_vista_32_bit52y5t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instofficial.online/ruled_paper_template08u6z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/waxipefimafa/uidPOhh/varev.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481170/normal_5fd6d859723ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390999/normal_605c4b72bbcc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ighelperscenter.com/bright_starts_swing_and_bouncerbbiu6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/busibelifiv/ijgcUq8/84242854907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daviluzabidi/hffhfYm/kalopuvagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417526/normal_5fe84881c4451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamovingcompany.com/16789057241o7yjs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b86a0fa-5a66-41ea-afcb-ea74d88b4da8/lafamoxolepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a9bfe82-8f6e-4457-99ae-6aa792c41caa/what_temp_to_dry_jerky_in_oven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7133fc40-0b9c-4701-b953-e7fafc934b44.filesusr.com/ugd/70a38d_f72c8e1c0ff442c4bef4b7fdf3dc8d25.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e06a0961-d6a0-413f-b10c-2fd8806dd69a/totewonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96190da9-b605-4320-a458-89c408ca77e7/69994912810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a77868dc-20c4-4a47-99dc-69ce9cdd5920/96521311741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e12d86e0-2ae4-4bd2-bfdc-6be69bba931d/twilight_saga_movies_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6680615c-3592-42a6-94f3-b98e474b5330.filesusr.com/ugd/252546_958d64477afd4ebba48c1ec25fad25bf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c9b188fa-0fa4-4973-9f5a-7bcdb0c92ba4/star_wars_in_chronological_order_including_shows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8260c15-a061-46d8-ad04-cb5ee51070cf/how_to_use_black_and_decker_rice_steamer.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000102b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B1 5068 bytes
SHA-256: a070ae48bd99af76abe50ac7d10b518ceeb035f024c7d835174e14305fbc518a
font_01_sfnt_off000113d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D0 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 0b38f6fd5e0b54bfa22d5adee1cfe00629fe134100fc7cfc1ad14a2ab7974207
font_02_sfnt_off000123b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B0 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 3b12d8406c0153f303157e859cc790962963e108a921b34e58a4479e7a9293d3