Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef0afd1ccf65f14f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-02-19 14:02:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: bb010a07c47f739c8948b96754f9a288 SHA-1: f6e418372247269acb5f46987d0acf61ebd77a58 SHA-256: ef0afd1ccf65f14f2b4c9f2d77700b9b0fc658c994e97da317e2a28ca8440fc6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains and Weebly subdomains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the ClamAV signature specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Lord of the Rings' and wkhtmltopdf, likely a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=lord+of+the+rings+book+series+list+in+order PDF link annotation
    • http://doucheapp.xyz/wulenadelaruzewerutemiwejkouwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xekuruwagimutuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696141/jutere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zedowegekinusil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997302/wigagatujuta_nabupo_doziwamu_nadeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xesofizagib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491847/6645994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisojobiregabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509607/zavasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physcoo.com/362127058p04iu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalmedialit.com/fisulosenei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupadidaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873798/vizuzogirasesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimax.website/sinimekadagavazafilrat7x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamakebowixon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134477175/tuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzifadisuluso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347683/c40598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-bita.org/asme_boiler_and_pressure_vessel_code1dpu1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancandance.org/80375842836t1fek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesumevikenaful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346106/857901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libuxematofep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070581/nobeperebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoorama.site/free_google_chrome_installer_for_pcpz4ny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nominasacra.ru/civil_rights_movement_timeline_worksheet_answers59qlm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winoorama.fun/pureflix_on_rokubfc8l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpupnov.pro/descriptive_analysis_definitionr410k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pestore.pro/66841421073s3id7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisuwudogepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776006/rasudewe-tuwovaniwifujoz-tugevijesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AD 5104 bytes
SHA-256: f50552da7019f348d1adb5ae57954511b8cd3123670e4ee4df1535963ffc5147
font_01_sfnt_off0001090b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090B 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 95716e25fa2ec29089a7f42df8a71565d7f9c571070cadb4ab19b96e1b9de915