Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01afefd13d5f685b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-05-06 09:16:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 56b855cf228db9021d82f60d7a6cb155 SHA-1: b3d6ef1af39735a862dc60ea223b070a593b5d18 SHA-256: 01afefd13d5f685b456efb201e3873368847a9799deb60dffb882f99deb017da
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The heuristic 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the execution of commands or exploitation of vulnerabilities. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to unlocking a dishwasher, which serves as a lure to direct users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+unlock+the+kenmore+elite+dishwasher PDF link annotation
    • http://helpforteam.com/tarot_card_bookj9bf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonizubiro.getenjoyment.net/death_march_light_novel_volume_13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libutulidux.medianewsonline.com/factors_affecting_buffer_capacity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damita.fun/mandated_reporter_number08esv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://91506351-5699In macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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
    • https://050a9d39-d8a1-4107-8be8-b2b70b72e454.filesusr.com/ugd/5262df_2a0eb0cd9efe4dec898dcb0252149bfa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixedujegibex/70306419456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efe523a3-d756-4f55-ba91-412f3a718e00.filesusr.com/ugd/236571_8942c259f0874e4a934eef89aeec1f12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c1696db-d69f-4d8a-be9c-27877081ac2c/peter_principle_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wujapu/paluporexogena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://da4cb982-96ac-4827-b01c-1601b1c9977c.filesusr.com/ugd/b05c40_f463ba77c97b42d78cf81396929769aa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1bc63da9-1204-423e-95cc-5338109d939d/windows_powershell_scripting_documentation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://91506351-5699-48ce-85e7-8e7d071f4e87.filesusr.com/ugd/d775a9_0f3bf81e161447b08884cbbdf1c4264c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/palikuvexake/picasso_blur_image_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://254b3b0b-79dc-4992-827c-fd4bb3db3178.filesusr.com/ugd/f515ca_d206eea0e1fe4c668fa894c166bcde45.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b368701-ea3c-49fb-966d-cc6ff9a2ac46/gususunirasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viboxikuz/gazisixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c6e33c6-240a-4561-aa62-c174e3df7822/ive_got_some_sunshine_in_my_pocket_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9432100d-9319-41cf-a9ef-1f96c67b9484/stihl_ms180_chainsaw_bar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c8027e1-9878-41b3-a9ef-32ba2b6bcd02.filesusr.com/ugd/185811_dc4416e82f8749f4a68c98d9107ebe3d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba10d46a-d7c1-43af-8542-f1a50f31aa8a.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_169f83d5200c4184b83158c204a71ddb.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10990 5176 bytes
SHA-256: b1a70e1aa361259f734bc0d033419c9dac34d493e468cad87ef5de63537eac47
font_01_sfnt_off00011b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B05 12524 bytes
SHA-256: 0b42a23c06673b38c7371b7b7884a36cb79ca66aeae2cc0a517439eeb3330d3e
font_02_sfnt_off000144ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144AE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333