Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5cf428dc0eee3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-29 10:11:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a79df41a384e78420d1ecba8f1e3db92 SHA-1: b09ac32494eb91e64b2f63bffcf85e53fed369a9 SHA-256: 1f5cf428dc0eee3ed1b5e6162b8cd477cb39121511ad713ac2ffc9110f3f1cd3
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, indicating it functions as a link farm, likely to direct users to malicious sites or for SEO manipulation. The presence of 'powershell_exe_on_startup.pdf' in the document text suggests an attempt to trick users into executing PowerShell commands, potentially for downloading further payloads.

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://resalured.ru/award?keyword=admir%25C3%25A1vel+mundo+novo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sipipewawezizuf.getenjoyment.net/how_do_i_know_if_my_washing_machine_is_high_efficiency.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nopotaz.medianewsonline.com/40064431801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gigezesuzobe.getenjoyment.net/windows_powershell_exe_on_startup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417046/normal_604a207e7ec95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fawikenaxalu.scienceontheweb.net/zafatoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369185/normal_6005167baeabc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426557/normal_603bd84f765bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woxotiwewezoba.22web.org/c_programming_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393506/normal_5ffdbda8f0083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475376/normal_604f71ea00b1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387589/normal_5fc9bf1238ad7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://88966db1-4a83-4446-b941-f65022a6235f.filesusr.com/ugd/928e0f_b82a8de9646c4e90b90de4c0c7aad016.pdf?index=trueIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://99a51e5b-0970-4a55-8da9-66b0886d76df.filesusr.com/ugd/a58502_d773aa5c9b9844c8b905d87d112018fa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f3b26af-a357-4ab7-b723-baa2d0f6bb2b.filesusr.com/ugd/5d6e2e_4970195fea524e9f982d94b185f95539.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e924225a-aa46-4bfc-8e56-7341551e1833.filesusr.com/ugd/54dfea_5ce3fe6281fe443984670059ce90f0ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2703069b-a6ff-4ff9-983c-db139a8d76ba.filesusr.com/ugd/8b61cf_6a0680fed2504fe39519bf9d02144852.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3c3b6f52-20a2-448a-be11-eec5930c502f.filesusr.com/ugd/0ca786_3665f63b71d34030acab036f5a492b7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://putotapuzavip.rf.gd/vogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://79d86aa2-23c4-4aa0-a0dc-c16ac59ae55d.filesusr.com/ugd/ecb701_13f9fa34c0e149ad846bd53c4eb10f7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ad9e3d1f-bb22-46ca-892e-b6aa3325a756.filesusr.com/ugd/837d34_f81c316ed8784c48a7b1b694bc262dcf.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_off0000f527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF527 5084 bytes
SHA-256: db5fed40b51859fd1a5c9c04fefae7f627fcbf65c78a3df11a616f31033abab8
font_01_sfnt_off00010662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10662 12632 bytes
SHA-256: 4581d4ae3f003d5eb67b26d3a06171e090f203b4147c0f99ca3251769ff150f0