Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f89e4e957dc9b0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-03-24 23:23:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: aeebabe97c21849fb40ad25f5730a509 SHA-1: 53ad7052618f090345c116e0dfffcd862373c940 SHA-256: f89e4e957dc9b0f3352eb6cf9ddea2a8eaea75176fdddf13c8eb34bc1bc057af
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm and potential phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and appears to be a disguised lure, possibly related to SEO spam or phishing, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristics. The presence of multiple external URLs, some with unknown reputation, further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=esperanza+rising+comprehension+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://carinsusa.info/87851847599xdtmu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakor.pro/152554786534kt53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrighthelpcentral.com/wired_headset_pdp_-_afterglow_lvl_34r4oo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazalefofano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134578352/xitobezufenogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masenajeronuzes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637464/puwepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://56db2a4d-09ce-4ff6-a558-abb1d6727cd4.filesusr.com/ugd/003b86_4cd6678b9da34a6bb2ce6f9b27063feb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gasodamuza/frys_first_100_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/568accb4-5ad5-471c-ba24-f4bc5f2b557f/how_can_you_prove_that_oxygen_is_produced_during_photosynthesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1261df91-4e32-40b2-8b8a-4050d3c54cbb.filesusr.com/ugd/df69c1_f9f48cf43e4349b892d1e1a31503a9ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zijivevip/bibejegubizesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebba3e40-d49f-4cc8-b137-373bb1124918.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_07be9b11dd8746d3a85d8e5fa148d048.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://de315c38-daa2-4293-b666-e554ba9b7d65.filesusr.com/ugd/564d2e_94f67267d3e54e4cba265841a2445ae5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cfc603e6-7cd4-4c42-812b-9722deb80ae4.filesusr.com/ugd/0e9fc2_3e58ab66a3f84b919af98c7aa68d042a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0cc2a7d0-6f33-4335-9ec9-554d9418487e.filesusr.com/ugd/cb4a18_b42b9b6af3f04383b12056184eea2ac5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fukezavazuj/to_kill_a_mockingbird_notes_chapter_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9e5e8ac-9dc8-4bb1-a392-5acfcd6483e9/lawetikixagimuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/938cfd63-5b1f-4e2d-9f49-98dd722ae216/ibuprofen_davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0583c916-812b-458d-b198-819ccca3f236/28855050281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1fc3e790-19e1-43b7-bae7-d09a953f51fe.filesusr.com/ugd/2c608b_3556d693b19b4457a6f73dae54a55bcd.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000fa3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3C 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 0c85bfd604d8b91049beaaf73de13f627156a35ee49823414388e7b3cc80e9a0
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9E 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec91505ea75da00dfc77f6862b3e52b75e3f2f92cce574a1ea542fadb27d8b2