Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e70285cecbf9fb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-04-06 16:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 61f49603c701d284b59e2228e5894543 SHA-1: ee71dddfdca557534f67d3621e12cea67b2dc80b SHA-256: 1e70285cecbf9fb729843e3799827ca2ffa10abbcbbc775fdb64256eb0726c7f
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are dynamically generated and hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of a 'curl_file_to_filename.pdf' pattern in the document text suggests an attempt to download and execute further content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/wix?keyword=bernina+1130+service+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xedaliwim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454603/4401168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepexugoroba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134469665/gufoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gikunixa/7hhsggN/20193592108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/butituguxur/Lyghjgm/36502900417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sitosuduf/jc7bia5/widopuxuzitozuxafamabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fijajiles/gdxgiha/curl_file_to_filename.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nibijegun/htsjgit/866109522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowopezamiw.medianewsonline.com/knowing_god_s_will_for_your_life.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56425e24-bc4f-48b6-9e61-ce66cc493a0c/how_to_get_check_engine_light_off_jeep_wrangler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a2c098e-ce5b-44c1-b8a0-bbace5ad1dca/gadedaxobizajapewexabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f74ea38a-ab8d-49a0-8d31-9a1d7ce64423.filesusr.com/ugd/5ceade_37c0c67a9c01443297106eee5fde06a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91953a53-6f32-4f2a-9b2e-0f954541ff31.filesusr.com/ugd/dad90e_0ee6476341fb4f82b3db48b4635a53ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kakavogulogij.onlinewebshop.net/laissez_faire_leadership_style.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5773036e-61d5-4b90-842c-214071177ee0/miniature_dachshund_puppies_for_sale_uk_preloved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0926596c-b1e6-4473-87d6-fed2e709bfeb.filesusr.com/ugd/e2a635_78f7f9fec5874255a6c732bf2fe19aab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6a293f2-6876-493d-91b7-c13182b05023.filesusr.com/ugd/bcaa7e_b48c91cdf86b48d4b468492c63abbe9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/388031b8-16cc-4c33-a61a-dd0515cdb2b5/47865196896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d8ec88ce-93b1-4b83-b294-7016fd5b5063.filesusr.com/ugd/366252_bdf11cb9588f4b4fb55c4388516081e7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c931c956-7f53-4e4e-96dc-27d7f003ba63.filesusr.com/ugd/b80c10_b1990fa415174145ac756557511010ca.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/In 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_off0000dce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE3 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 0a526393d53676ed84aeb328c394fee2adb7c7ee7194b0edef199d1148516040
font_01_sfnt_off0000f080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF080 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 667d5219e0ed1a8bb703a2c7f08f6433d4cc79f32730649f54f20d704b8545e2