Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 165a5f8f87624d27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-05-14 15:41:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 0958ddb0cbaa2a82e9d766f5547e9032 SHA-1: 526bd39e9b633561242c9d6ce83911279bdc85e8 SHA-256: 165a5f8f87624d2782daa0ce00686836862613cfc44ec5224ae0496df103b901
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of 'powershell_virus.pdf' in the document text hints at potential command execution, possibly via embedded JavaScript or other exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=mix+2+words+level+159 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/salusasopuvi/dghpja9/zoo_animal_coloring_pages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lilavokolet/jcieid1/jupufuzisovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazulerijodinib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856415/207892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biwedujurar.mywebcommunity.org/zamawidalimadixibipaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wovuwukotuvoxi.mygamesonline.org/castrol_edge_td_5w40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lipisowuke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387266/gezojoper-xizatipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolagozisil.mywebcommunity.org/xopemuwufafesojujavidiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mumijivamivaxij.medianewsonline.com/how_to_remove_windows_powershell_virus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sotatixorawi/jehEggs/on_my_block_cast_ages_season_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d45380bd-a93d-4ef2-b2bd-4c7806d1f6db.filesusr.com/ugd/5d2cf3_63ef7a1fad014b51a753f9b3289c4f5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9a89a7da-ede3-42eb-a537-7416be21eb2d.filesusr.com/ugd/aaaf79_832783e20d994d8c81090acd30fef6b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d201561b-48f2-404b-9a79-c99c1720255c/3060854551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://54179944-c6a3-49b3-9462-5d1939b6aff2.filesusr.com/ugd/49f5ef_332d3ab19216493791b8c656d6a21d58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c3a7a64c-5591-430b-94d7-c2eadfdf3523.filesusr.com/ugd/966478_9e73e731b8804105b643507e63ffd354.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a73a5718-de60-4125-9e2e-1ee10f5610c0/what_are_life_skills_for_adults.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e203ae6d-3ce7-4ed4-89cc-63a5eebcb0c7/what_vpn_protocol_is_best.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://35e1cc1d-5f6c-4a41-9b1b-b9ae8dddc97a.filesusr.com/ugd/351eee_970572d56e9d415a86ee5c91abb9ce0c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://101c3d73-5e22-4da1-a203-a3a2a794ce88.filesusr.com/ugd/69a512_6347a7af3ca94b519618179f0ebd8424.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://50037ee0-0691-4a53-bdc2-b2f8f795cfa6.filesusr.com/ugd/b41a9a_fdfa92eddd6f4b13a272b3f9b7f426cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0edbd855-5cb2-466d-aa16-38840742e38d/70198690171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://441dbedc-201a-49d7-bb2a-292980023e2b.filesusr.com/ugd/473728_d0caaa2e70f64482b8265acfedd73ac7.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/filesIn 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_off0000ec84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC84 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 39d4871e109bc32bd81d4abe1dd9b52e61a9c6a064dff3e625551eb51db19d71
font_01_sfnt_off0000fec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC9 10764 bytes
SHA-256: e3fd315e66ad7c12c5c20c481628191d8b609e50a805abd82ce0c3f019526bfb