Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e75949188f544fc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 17:53:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 16ce14a9ed0e603cce54347ca72e3b33 SHA-1: 685753d298e61d6e7beb86823b9aa2d9a1e36966 SHA-256: e75949188f544fc7cd770315bc551c25f74f71c53f646b97b28dff3a2944d221
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external links, including one pointing to 'vilenefex.ru', suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body's reference to a WhatsApp update is a common lure for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/123?utm_term=novit%25C3%25A0+ultimo+aggiornamento+whatsapp+android PDF link annotation
    • https://bojirutewum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134622564/2837368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeravatiwawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134603636/8d4b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://detomipipu.pbworks.com/f/xevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiwuwas.pbworks.com/f/what_does_kissing_someone_on_the_forehead_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kizisoj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144519843/fofinurevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d408bb5-e9ce-4bd0-b384-203702596eb9/john_deere_z425_manual_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raravisu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144754728/4d_live_wallpaper_for_android_mobile_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivikixizub.pbworks.com/f/6-5_conditions_for_rhombuses_rectangles_and_squares_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojirakaj.pbworks.com/f/comment_faire_pousser_les_cheveux_crpus_plus_vite_astuce_maison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0097708a-5a82-49a5-b39e-55a8d79e2b39/tejofevabibaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/390051d3-db0b-47cb-9623-a9c7135dadcf/the_danger_of_a_single_story_quote_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eab43532-99db-4d2c-98d8-b8dacb16140c/olympus_tg-860_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetubabup.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144575958/11478706769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibosopimugo.pbworks.com/f/how_do_you_find_kanais_cube_in_diablo_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3aa6d81c-ef8c-4dda-82f8-42bf2a63661b/90022824607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85eb7ea0-c50a-42b7-8aed-618b1da1e79b/30650275313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukafag.pbworks.com/f/dynamics_of_faith_paul_tillich.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefolevemud.pbworks.com/f/3814402182.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_off0000e475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE475 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 5d587492edbba9a3bc390d04ee5da4996494eb978d0d0b8e7f0e20e0f493ffab
font_01_sfnt_off0000f755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF755 11704 bytes
SHA-256: b518c162bf8b5b0f5282d7d5fa11cd801fbde9943c21b62b144b26310a245075