Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c10d8be35bd4601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-05-17 19:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b7c536022c43afaef1d1f1fa33f1dd23 SHA-1: 15f00eeaa38f7716ab24e732eb831c7b9e7d8053 SHA-256: 4c10d8be35bd4601df70edacc6dd1e8e73ea66bffe0eb579530595a2bd86d896
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of 'powershell_start_ssh-agentmb5ta.pdf' in the document text suggests an attempt to execute commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload from one of the numerous embedded URLs. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=3+point+perspective+drawing+interior PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380539/normal_603149d21efe0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipmanmarket.space/campoformido_udine_corrieralmter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datab.vip/libro_assassins_creed_forsaken_espaol01h18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489247/normal_60356d1632917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merexazumebenag.medianewsonline.com/83924530281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duplicwcnj.space/jitirafimiv02n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366015/normal_601c5fcf8968a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevezor.scienceontheweb.net/woduvapomameved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450731/normal_5fda2dff38cc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimesajigikizup.22web.org/75033478501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metarapuw.mypressonline.com/accountancy_class_12_short_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickned.me/funcion_indirecto_vbav5ohg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gratoramaa.space/what_is_a_police_personal_history_statement78wpf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389601/normal_6002260a137c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapusta.pro/birthday_cake_image_app0zz8g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447267/normal_602b9b24edb7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b4shop.icu/50862892149klzt4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417033/normal_60156cdb2c6e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basvuruizleme.online/windows_powershell_start_ssh-agentmb5ta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outputqwvk.space/vimumixixopokabetojenasoglf5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gaxezakowe.epizy.com/prebisch_capitalismo_periferico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mewabetowa.myartsonline.com/88087826838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favilogas.rf.gd/2013_home_economics_leaving_cert_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigapenegig.atwebpages.com/how_to_clean_the_ionic_pro_air_purifier.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_off0000ffc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC4 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 845479700559df893dbfc36b9378c09f01ead2c01a3005baa075d4739577d5f5
font_01_sfnt_off0001125c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125C 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3a8872ad53c666341fdd708a509e6131c71f1d015d7010e64cfef7f93153a0