Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24a8b83b2e325779…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.8 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 76a00d87948ceb4556c9ab7c8b8183ae SHA-1: b513fb2f7417860bb13c0a7e7e1753d0654ddd2b SHA-256: 24a8b83b2e3257790c5716a725399607f1c8468ba60d2345e4690637a609208b
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics, which point to numerous external links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=bwr+pro+apk', likely serve as landing pages for malicious content or further phishing attempts.

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://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=bwr+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://xelemuzeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137501053/3376839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4478951/normal_60aff99cc8f5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447888/normal_6027df6650e66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446790/normal_600a53af1fcab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufobaxepomek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866816/1356747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474446/normal_606e44811545f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butebipibib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265815/vilanotubukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nunubawuguxage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137504951/kamixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwudobuxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682441/wenojogewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nunubawuguxage.weebIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f4e03c4-ca88-4e4d-bf32-3457ca68b5c9/xizurelobaweruwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gipovowi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144839814/mumoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuxotatizexu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144574113/ovid_metamorphoses_book_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxamom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145022760/vozobagikoxofisepalilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d8d73fd-94f9-49af-8d88-33fb5ea8584c/como_hacer_la_conversion_de_pulgadas_a_milimetros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulisapil.pbworks.com/f/how_to_write_daily_progress_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9eca60a-80a7-4114-b742-28e6d03113b8/rimitelikuzubunanasevipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kegujomojos.pbworks.com/f/star_wars_babu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73429aea-0999-4e4f-95f4-1083f2b64fdf/what_is_the_average_cost_of_prescription_safety_glasses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de2757d2-01af-413d-9bec-7c994a5bfca0/rip_curl_watch_repairs_australia.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_off0001c729.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C729 4808 bytes
SHA-256: 43cc85caebce488e4cc4d5343a154ea25f8f4a1c0bb9509a402e0083e4dca4b4
font_01_sfnt_off0001d7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D7AA 9944 bytes
SHA-256: cc6c63dced6e1a652b7ab95f7c9245c069a60e0ff44aae5aab8ad95d0be345de