Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25f063885aecb33f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-03-24 17:42:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ac4327ebd5752b9ed6b6b97ef33fcfcd SHA-1: b09d4f0e9ee29af61d1a8652251b1b143389ddee SHA-256: 25f063885aecb33f84a8b62007fc5e0d014292a5c83c07e8c05f8952456594a0
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'cmd.pdf' and URLs with 'utm_term' parameters further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=spektrum+dx5e+manual+cz PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445534/normal_6046b42aea789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389821/normal_5fe45e1d4d871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450426/normal_601978069e937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boleligez.22web.org/xitejinumivufakiminovo.pdfIn 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/66b9a2ac-1dd6-4923-b8b5-cccb70fcea9b/98660971899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa53e508-d88d-41cb-897c-7a5b6f1bfcc3.filesusr.com/ugd/361045_21ff18541af94dee8868c43ac92cb9b2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a23f1cc1-2953-40e2-910c-ae155247fbf0/ap_biology_2013_multiple_choice_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://37cc4ef3-276f-49d0-84f3-8bc08bbde6a9.filesusr.com/ugd/e4a5d4_fec434fedcd54b29acf8359f923309cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fd4abad-31f8-4c52-ae8e-93d0cc7f2af2.filesusr.com/ugd/910e70_28f38604f48d46bfa9d77cd3351f1405.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xilibosukotijob.epizy.com/fivopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c9b0c9dc-51ad-46ec-84b2-dbc26df53712.filesusr.com/ugd/b6f588_046cb20e8b594d5dbfff3608496c74b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa2261a4-c162-4f27-ac4c-e761436b8266/what_is_gong.io.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1058d175-53f8-4d86-9201-ae9c1fc74009.filesusr.com/ugd/62a633_31fa839c99804c21b1beaea74b865bcf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b2d0616-4780-4123-a4c8-4aa85bc1f2fa/what_is_active_listening_and_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ca483b97-61ac-4196-bca0-6b249c18eca9.filesusr.com/ugd/b27199_b493408b110f41b78d55a53c43dacccb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f748b908-369c-4893-9d7e-cd1a5478acf1/how_to_start_paint_from_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44c58010-cee7-4657-9bff-d1d4c33c7e53/what_is_police_intelligence_operations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3f46bf15-0a8c-4e80-b3e5-a2e3bf90e008.filesusr.com/ugd/8e6e76_47b5b82838f24dda9681961ace5db647.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c72a6d71-2fad-4f5a-8b7a-a7c165485bce.filesusr.com/ugd/a4966f_24fc4b82cef6400a8a69738eea031029.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60cd1140-09cb-4973-9332-6f1e0361ca5c/36429425312.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44c58010-ceeIn 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_off00010f0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0E 5448 bytes
SHA-256: c273c855bcf0695a238d2b088f33f6f9e0f660e1d46a25aad4c2bf1d04afb915
font_01_sfnt_off00012195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12195 12060 bytes
SHA-256: 167150fcce707e09ffc99800764e059331016eae8e8c5da6ab391589dc572f9c