Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3745e23bf9ba5576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-05-17 20:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 49a9d4257167d39334be61aa62444812 SHA-1: d35e0e70f44220073d86e795d1870131cdbf0f01 SHA-256: 3745e23bf9ba5576bb1ea877569abd84bba2f3191a1bdabb7448e9b41a9f8b73
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a 'ClickFix' lure, to trick users into executing commands. It instructs the user to copy and paste content into a terminal, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=logitech+g710+keyboard+not+working PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xoberuweri/hb0jjpt/liburuwazisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/neridisen/QH82hap/34945542838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xidizizo/Mid4Sgf/lupowege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puzadowoke/amWgchj/samsara_game_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macsk.space/girudoro2q4d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jumupebuvi/jYarzgd/55341344829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nizufalagef/7hMkjci/ludo_online_game_with_friends.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raxavetaletu/mighgeD/46190393523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuvels.xyz/nodutugi4st15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://63b1f34b-4847-450f-8d9a-4788d10e1cf5.filesusr.com/ugd/451a43_04d22776454c4534bf82eca6d5130539.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fa92a97-cb92-440c-90a9-25c69eb7c34b/charles_darwin_origin_of_species.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c53bbb9e-cb7c-404e-bd59-b3d9fd037feb/what_did_no_game_no_life_copy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6558ac43-984d-4e3a-97a1-dec8860611ed.filesusr.com/ugd/c73740_0333c28dd110443d9d4047d6c6a6b7d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tirimofufemukat/lanokajowowomebukenewava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/resabomibogodaw/auto_call_regarding_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fc06435f-e709-4c80-b59d-96fa470c1a13.filesusr.com/ugd/bdc04d_c55ff9c639ba44d4b2efea3549348178.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f1c0478e-57b3-422a-b8eb-433964b677d2.filesusr.com/ugd/16c17d_9a8efc4cfa9441188e4cdb0ca6d20c9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/donarepemi/black_clover_yuno_fairy_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ae0195d-0309-4055-b3fb-a7c61a9794c5/829280792.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_off0000f5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B0 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 504100e798cd5b2c40d1896389416526a945fd0a9936d839d661ce2f93be1b3f
font_01_sfnt_off000108ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EA 11512 bytes
SHA-256: cedeb5a88bf23f2a8cddc5b5ca415e16c1783ae88782d5700d91b94561fdec47