Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9de60e4449b77cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-04-07 08:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 216ef3069e42a6d3e16459044dd911ad SHA-1: 93d17c92bf719f266240ce2eaefb8584c52e4eab SHA-256: e9de60e4449b77cfae2700664dd145b34e9cd2d989f53c2db5842f2bd8c827ac
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and PDF heuristics indicate this document is malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful external sites. The presence of 'wkhtmltopdf' in the metadata and the structure of the URLs point towards a link farm or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8947

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/5296457674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/43600748611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/56601188302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/27880179426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/xigidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=alcoholes+de+azucar+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B9 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 29d485535a939780b25becfcb75f909ab881cf6eedb0dd984a5cfc63edac4cd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f68e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68E 11952 bytes
SHA-256: 02f77968e908024a53ee4a872dd1667e58878938ac3a48da58dec7dc4ecfe7b9
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e