Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 066928766efc3e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-03-11 06:52:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 8f250d592742c5f0009d87f915a562a0 SHA-1: 3be3ea7fbd6e681af68e701aa171cb4a0cdb7cd7 SHA-256: 066928766efc3e6ec6370261df9b472f52c73efe60eaa78f0acdef87c26609fe
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm strategy to direct users to potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, including those hosted on disposable domains and Weebly, strongly suggests an attempt to obfuscate the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, indicating it likely serves as a dropper or phishing page.

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://bologen.ru/wix?keyword=oc+maker+challenge+jr PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/natokaze/fhjKeet/notepad_application_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokosemebejira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813317/rarofowujekiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kulobuwaxegu/ghd0ghN/five_nights_at_freddy_s_song_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fexipipovunozem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682859/sojuvifiwisix-levoruxuwosezop-mebut-vazedepozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rutunidosaw/bia9Jjf/88098602631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lepudijazur/jjgTNX9/dragon_village_m_mod_apk_1._2._10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bojodunaluko/gLjcmd7/samsung_s8_email_app_not_syncing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getiwojaxewife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012456/a12ce3ef3d9111c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buvemalo.66ghz.com/bavazukekevabuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.stIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://413f70bc-0247-4a04-a3fc-eabb14e2b93f.filesusr.com/ugd/f18ee6_530842c8a28245a0bd841fd1f420af2a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://76df98a8-3e94-4eee-a6f5-23e1de06049b.filesusr.com/ugd/54c74c_ecc1edd5c201451ea005b4d9ec7f26c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f479b3df-3e18-4937-a238-2ad3e40f1aae/what_is_the_hunger_games_mockingjay_part_1_about.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://858e1da1-ad31-4e5b-aec0-89c59c6c71f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6240f8_c845af2c36b54825b50f57836f8e5bb7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gixunov.rf.gd/sigulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://43a2ba88-5de9-465b-b95f-6a4d82f2d06e.filesusr.com/ugd/dcbeda_96b145257a8e4fdda75b23d2594883f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76988189-0fc0-481d-a149-af6934681366/how_to_create_a_stock_trading_strategy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2ae89fd-0770-4b78-900e-4853dc679832/kadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigukelebejewir.epizy.com/fikukobiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://528f6e5c-6927-42ef-b7a5-a8f9c349750c.filesusr.com/ugd/07b979_656f79a39ca8444daf4c235677219997.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44034db3-6cdd-4729-adf3-7ccd6afcf354.filesusr.com/ugd/9fe9cc_098a22e3083d4db38f6e967cc11d8775.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73099f28-10d5-4558-98a1-2f8dc61f1a2f.filesusr.com/ugd/f62eaa_0c8e8925521242ac913de58ba1cf2e1d.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_off0000f19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19A 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4783bb31dbc6cfcc0f04de36e456cce9891c32c1083de1444355fb9c2ddab2
font_01_sfnt_off00010328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10328 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 0be519a92f08355422ea042d2f158bdd89cdcc34c948dd4b189337bc67e35847