Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4365242d38682b4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-05-10 00:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 25d52821036a6825b6b137398f8d4c86 SHA-1: da8dcd15737baa66598b036f32bac938a8300146 SHA-256: 4365242d38682b4c93aebe49bbae61ed7168963cb291ab991f292d53db10efdc
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. Crucially, it includes a lure to copy and paste content into a command-line interface, which is a common technique to trick users into executing malicious commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • 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
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+live+happy+life PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nifodotiriru/jbJhipJ/inside_out_gruppo_musicale_palermo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwamuneluzotip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/602e14b1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujibovuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134705076/ritomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zapajugadira/jhUjagg/mitobevoponew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unreguezff.rest/adverb_clauses_exercises_worksheetsat4cx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myyshooop224.site/19705102694o086m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadupomojafex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776775/505844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/futidiwe/jicgijj/tours_las_vegas_los_angeles_san_francisco.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakrutkavk.site/post_brutal_zombie_action_rpg_mod_apkrk9ib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sebuwemid/rJichi9/movakelebetokenetanigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinepopowig/jqGPqge/t_i_sky_factory_mobile_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zoribakim/gePSUx2/80422449312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudebakafepi.mypressonline.com/82295662584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rosomugimo/jghcS6s/25951091350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kixarozikej/Z9hhgis/donozuvukivotoder.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/e923883b-02d4-4503-92f4-4d08555cd503/how_to_find_out_my_medicaid_provider_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewofeket.onlinewebshop.net/wofepofaverawuraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/055c0bb0-55a9-4593-adfc-c3dc2f182575/how_to_overcome_auditory_processing_disorder.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_off0000eff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 93257904f400ce036373e95e003a3c6a9f953cfe3864161f770d218da6f80993
font_01_sfnt_off000100e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E2 10928 bytes
SHA-256: c213aac8a96ad7465a9b53db828b8a7266f1d59b13ed3a136381db2f3dbc3577