Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ef1e6df4c8b89d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-04-19 23:08:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1da6511c3aaa282c8ac2be6d124d6c56 SHA-1: 23e8a0c195ce10b983127b76b2c0b23c8ccccc38 SHA-256: 01ef1e6df4c8b89d5e59b541d6126899a6f42b037f303dc42d0b4db2a258d8ef
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many of which are part of a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious websites, such as the one at 'ponafet.ru'. The presence of 'cmd.pdf' and related URLs suggests an attempt to disguise malicious activity as legitimate system commands or documentation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=the+coaching+habit+7+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384295/normal_602a25a63ce28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420245/normal_6041959c8dcfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444374/normal_601ce5ad51cf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475987/normal_5fd10397bf464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477369/normal_600fa1fcb67d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366063/normal_5ffdfb214bb97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445745/normal_5fdb8c215eab3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451752/normal_60639216aea88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f33d1b56-f518-462b-b61f-c1b5c1ba661c.filesusr.com/ugd/1c44ce_6256c24fa0cc46cc82f30b76359b9852.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e371b2c7-7d4b-47fc-adc4-5e4355c5144d/how_to_restart_cisco_router_using_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3cd3b14-5094-46c8-ae06-f17750093f23/10472863267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d8f5dac-f4c6-43a5-b0dc-9fd4f55e8a49/25928742665.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/34234bd4-de39-4dc3-891f-16595f6f1ce6/dijaxufunumome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02bc4616-4eae-4b38-b2c9-0e654f754ee0.filesusr.com/ugd/069df5_b017003f7d6349749ca9966c86eb6220.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jonora/sorting_odd_and_even_numbers_worksheet_ks1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lewuli/ravatesemovaragitufupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://920f4c01-5fd6-4c40-8b27-b99972fecb60.filesusr.com/ugd/d63aaf_e2da3cd7abe94eb6a798aa531a56e844.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7170f2d3-88f9-4653-952d-9e0313dac43a/harry_potter_and_the_sorcerers_stone_summary_chapter_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mojivikapeti/ferakusufagumopepipakivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kagedatabujo/samsung_frp_bypass_apk_5._1._1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wewuxuviwar/divirinomipupuzufulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa3bb5c3-2bd4-4791-9e2a-6e31d5009b04.filesusr.com/ugd/60e703_36788dd192b44070b4277fdaa588e280.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b7d3a0ae-8059-487b-8826-088776693174.filesusr.com/ugd/8d23e4_98ce46af12794c61be310c322adeca89.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ed9768e-82a7-41f7-bc91-4b86d8d7aa0f.filesusr.com/ugd/bdbd91_7cdca80663194d40bde30138676db3fa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0108a07e-94d6-443d-bfa7-575dd38852ad.filesusr.com/ugd/756a01_f25a807ae3224909ad18eab372093ea5.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3cd3b14-509In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE06 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 5397b7b6f2b1cba1232a374020c963fb3321db436652c34d8108ba3cfed0678c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD9 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 5a21ab06131d7033f79d4de29ac4c64c25944a8d10984531dfd8b25058260b01