Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8901079faf1cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-26 13:35:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: ebed5781a92056384c58702580bb64ba SHA-1: 746861f7024fd60fd883a0bcfd0a1d7e70b702cc SHA-256: 1c8901079faf1cce4cabfc8e694a7ab5d958f6679e5ad9db18eab54f1aabc322
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a LOLBin command-execution lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=terraform+bastion+azure PDF link annotation
    • http://fewutame.getenjoyment.net/cement_clinker_manufacturing_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuduniguwufo/iUgR4Kn/clash_of_clans_bases_th13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenonazuf.scienceontheweb.net/anisomeles_malabarica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fikalibumi/pUC5II6/cantiga_de_santa_maria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jabuvilir/gijtieJ/tops_to_wear_under_jumpsuits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/viwiratoposu/agYigaf/46991390425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lejesapazud/5hgm5PX/xadigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzexamipapoxip.medianewsonline.com/the_conformist_alberto_moravia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konalofasu.mywebcommunity.org/bezuvasejig.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://tikixoji.mywebcommunity.org/weak_points_in_human_body.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://fisareboveda.getenjoyment.net/duzunoluxesuguval.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9539e3d7-93ad-434a-85ac-22bd9bdb82bb.filesusr.com/ugd/df7b34_34e894074ebb47219e0dee92f470c47c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0aed7b51-d02b-4864-a6bb-b478bb809667.filesusr.com/ugd/fbdaab_052abd2e7127421e85de31a7006ea7b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a538b4df-88b1-4932-b5c8-735b32abe34f/59782389857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4288da86-2de6-4f51-a39b-8d3256e5d30c/81386152418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3c57265-d46a-4ec0-8ec3-93c55086b115/miguxipudinevutanegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce55c564-0e79-48ac-bd91-a034cff8554b.filesusr.com/ugd/bd1fc0_ee6bb1503f27401fb8003d6476bdba79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25717abf-1e24-4f75-b83d-174735bc4459/what_do_sociology_majors_make.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizomoravazub/87663777309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e29392b-1caa-4292-aa78-91307a485488/php_rest_client_curl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zasepo/deuterated_chloroform_safety_data_sheet.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9D 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 4de746cf0ecbdf945db4d2a6ae8f0ad32886ebf807904251d2abcdd05b270b1a
font_01_sfnt_off0001009e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009E 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 1026d68d505667de475b2204e09b231905c93a72edbb9ffd76511fa9dff143e4