Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71c0a0831abf4ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-05 17:46:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 27b5b903dfcdaacb0cd36f8c8b33849e SHA-1: 85bc55663151a350cc617f113b3e268bc6d1f310 SHA-256: e71c0a0831abf4ad27b0ce2656775e95a531a98c699280ea5658f53b0cb7500d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or link farms. One prominent URL, 'https://xajibur.ru/wix?keyword=even+when+you+lie+to+me+read+online', is directly embedded, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the link farm hypothesis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://xajibur.ru/wix?keyword=even+when+you+lie+to+me+read+online PDF link annotation
    • https://nifonafepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135319448/9710471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toxedozopofezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453782/nakufiviziwubetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481515/normal_601dde2349a1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topdouche.xyz/adharam_madhuram_song_pagalworldwgxt5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379387/normal_5fdf5992a1611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feketofemij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452988/6603301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murasujudadalox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135338307/9895501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zonujonuwug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134309714/wutadavoxopilekiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genoray.pro/bipudusugometajubokofoywl4t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukovapu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379149/69880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://disovipogazita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398104/jepopirawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484365/normal_602582b89ec84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366956/normal_5fc7b69ca3e42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radetotoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134697609/52f30674647d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnegozio.info/calendario_febrero_2019_chile26mkz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408707/normal_6028a23ca8846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d8d078ea-10ec-4787-8e21-ef6e32b87a24.filesusr.com/ugd/8f6098_05dfe4dd74fe49b0866e2013b92cbab8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb2dd5fc-13d6-4e32-9155-a9adfed32040/kudimefuwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9a60fab3-6fb0-4be7-9305-b2e3cc44d963.filesusr.com/ugd/811c4f_561e1b874ec64d70a3b2a5800e4912f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d064ede3-316f-4d13-8ec5-014b2136b3bd.filesusr.com/ugd/154db6_d2ff35d63df740b8929115c74746892e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af7e1d2a-bc83-4b74-a7d2-63f90f1cf0c7/how_to_set_time_on_casio_pathfinder_watch_2632.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_off0000ed48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED48 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 7b09d41dcf50487888d222db463d24bc48dbeb4930fc4a15efdb4a9f4695502b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE89 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 0c76bd128d7dff5a5264f4c5c2536ceb64373dbc38757dcc06edc6ae01703cad