Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a253a5f8d9ea1ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-05-07 11:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c3775f7832d61297938d7265472a46db SHA-1: 152b12ea86a593d0a45d33f132b3bd051510d3b7 SHA-256: 4a253a5f8d9ea1bab4ece1e06e60cc58bf08a7c19efb6e9518ad1ddc18e57fe9
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The heuristic 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' suggests the presence of commands like 'curl' which could be used to download additional payloads. The document body, though truncated, indicates a lure related to 'peak performance book summary pdf', aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=peak+performance+book+summary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jiwedizuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310564/1332799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janorewaxeno.mygamesonline.org/lg_fridge_ice_tray_wont_dump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logawedulukudan.mywebcommunity.org/vudefabijemesigibakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevesepegubisis.scienceontheweb.net/difakukorojeneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xitawefavam.medianewsonline.com/11729288411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://witudaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332653/1169564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibilivo.scienceontheweb.net/circle_k_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davanowaxisipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318110/696243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janorewaxeno.mygamIn 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/a057abd4-2792-4352-a74c-df079981441a/examples_of_cause_and_effect_essay_on_smoking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64cf2b1e-52ac-4910-aa94-e0f21bac8652/43250083102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/verirejon/curl_post_multipart_form-_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6643309-a555-4f91-8995-817e9bf6d429/whirlpool_duet_steam_dryer_making_screeching_noise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rofuvawitarul.atwebpages.com/79911794886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://39c3e2ba-dcb8-4bc0-9ed7-0058f02c59d5.filesusr.com/ugd/fd4c29_f99496f3f9b64537a4af4ecc0165025b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bea18ff6-67fc-4997-b8fc-69cbade03fc8/96085914132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e8b94c7-278c-4a65-9c30-8d61c93a8f31.filesusr.com/ugd/9ff9b8_219d87407df04868ba19cc63b476f71f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/neviwove/87560641706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa6eca1a-c690-4a36-985e-a873157a80b3.filesusr.com/ugd/081493_cb27ad1deeb74b92b7fb6e5178848578.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kepagewav.atwebpages.com/rukeloxuruwelipigaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/marimejerebo/estructura_de_un_manual_de_funciones_de_una_empresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/086087b6-f345-47e9-b7b8-af8427fd206b/did_sports_illustrated_have_a_swimsuit_issue_in_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petojijoxura.onlinewebshop.net/voxeguret.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_off000145c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C6 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 25da986cf3d90fd168075d06083a35207e8faddacc6d470689124cbe594ef751
font_01_sfnt_off000158ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158AB 12020 bytes
SHA-256: 07f1b1d208ff84d07eccf8739634564c8817ad83d0ca4b76c91178e9dd32b257