Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff2d35b4a5e011e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-02-16 02:25:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: d33f8fdc2ac1b71eb54e94e275817073 SHA-1: 520e396c90dcacc782f359ec2f936272c9e6833c SHA-256: ff2d35b4a5e011e02a3fb3a7792b64e1eb2922d18e4acb61f03dd1f01aef90e8
186 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 identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'lean canvas' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure to disguise the malicious intent of redirecting users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=how+to+use+a+lean+canvas PDF link annotation
    • https://koniwosusuzese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856176/zisijovodasajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nebenumepidenok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307723/dunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegiritofizupog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134644009/soweri-mukuxima-luvosemodabopo-rugirenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xafudilolara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744509/a23b2a11381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zelivetatop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814581/2b43a3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibevuguz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134859718/ec37b237b17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stassikorskyi.com/80382009716o7hn0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovetnik53.ru/html_link_to_printtnzhd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vajepagipe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000011/8169068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xifekuvazunavel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748582/lijinifowi-kuvirowinu-fumawerutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokutape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814024/5f87b337f1168b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://future-techno.ru/widulanoluxabikflz72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zowotojezef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134330732/wevizanisexoraxizilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zejatuno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776413/4305846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tefovaxosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163863/sumevinop-rovudikamutaw-fenafatokokobew-zumewekaverama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vapelurowar/ditofedixelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/paxivogedewilu/java_runtime_environment__jre_64-_bit.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEB 6872 bytes
SHA-256: cfd810a5ea282119da4c1abf509a1e6bf8c77e42bfdbea3e308bbcdcc7c40f73
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF41 4812 bytes
SHA-256: 2b22e249d7cd68de0ea4b90e39a6a6fcde7cf96f5569789e6ce8dca0edc8fa11
font_02_sfnt_off00010fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC0 3896 bytes
SHA-256: b62115c5dc03d5960b71e0b0855f0a1574996cb8a903b5cb2a2af3d126946b16
font_03_sfnt_off000119e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E3 10864 bytes
SHA-256: e765bc1ba9ead97af897f35e58fac7c5d8d1caf1dbdc67f7fcb4cbc5c675b76b