Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e45de5f4f381abf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 05859305afd039bea256de7b2599b161 SHA-1: b3515fcbd9f5b1d505566828174e6486d68c7354 SHA-256: e45de5f4f381abf9f1f50d2cf914f29c338b0b295fd244ab32fd5edc45200d23
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a critical detection score. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, indicating a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically flags this behavior, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf' is not inherently malicious but can be used to generate documents for various purposes, including malicious ones.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/kitigalolajuvexivowukivuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/45341080502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/xefife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5bf1d6fb0669c4d5a34c84b1e475591/towimakofozusitafuxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2314353111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/5496644726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/84143988195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximangcampha.vn/upload/files/14376009881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/49682089711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/remevukawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210908164819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/45348534295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkergeneralcontractors.net/userfiles/file/13441658972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ripedzn.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/90241837631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65663847611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac8235f285---voxikisavifogaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73994353100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polenes.cl/userfiles/file/wizumodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/8367695644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/lelatefakewizamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/7042834795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/63542914185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/81988682331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/82572318666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=adjectives+that+start+with+d+to+describe+a+person+positivelyPDF link annotation
    • 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://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_off0000d4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F1 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 8598c64956afae8083ebe377c79f8189525a876fa48b6e44dbc2ec2511944042
font_01_sfnt_off000101c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C3 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 858c27c7f3886c0dda8fe4015f35b73f338db287022130e98d1f5c08a203037e
font_02_sfnt_off00011b7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1