Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46aa44d7a37d7ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-04-18 08:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e60b38c25f41bff340365ae179fa68ac SHA-1: 51b5876eda7221d077e9b79ca369309c1311de0f SHA-256: 46aa44d7a37d7ac7a6f443af4c78467dbb231325b7d56108aec107756276b8a8
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious intent. It contains embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious domains and employs social engineering tactics such as a browser extension installation lure and a callback phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=does+planet+fitness+have+a+customer+service+number PDF link annotation
    • http://spiritstudio.ru/polk_audio_command_sound_bar_with_hands-free_amazon_alexame99v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413986/normal_602a5917e4481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatholl.com/4045648037fpxc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421768/normal_5fe809b053915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460968/normal_600eb90a80763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462354/normal_601dc982c4abe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitushok.space/70022457101dtanz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449602/normal_605314212c56c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta365.website/percy_jackson_and_the_lightning_thief_book_coverh60yg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471099/normal_5fc773545f3cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369657/normal_5fdc19cc7e15e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kellys.space/togozokewex9sx5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e472e0b9-2683-4da4-a8e2-267ecb969ec6/ego_lawn_mower_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cd1d7006-c886-4a6c-99cf-f75f324a1c44/how_to_use_dirt_devil_vacuum_hose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luborinizu/rip_curl_watch_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jusagi/reaccion_de_combustion_del_propeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20de361c-2e23-472a-8b63-327b9431d1e4/tiledolatedanug.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gawabog/84666233294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zoromexemuzid/89831114835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wixatax/16978726494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/953a6b72-3496-4e51-a1a2-08da814d43a5/99868196607.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://s3.amazonaws.com/jusagi/reacciIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAA 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 14d54b40c021b7642d75b3bf7eb0fae6f5d5ee7030140b2b97e6b6326cbbab98
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA4 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 226dd50fb51fd4270aaca9ff0d90a75d020b2861833c636378176becfbdf87d6
font_02_sfnt_off0001265b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230