Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 552ebd0b57ed4cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-03-04 22:43:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dd27e152d9e865a0b4dee379ee4f23ac SHA-1: b1dc4b352ee943472f0b04a9760dc907d6a2b524 SHA-256: 552ebd0b57ed4cc5e5cf9a8540f06245f9800636af4e8a424875b5647750264d
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of 'cMD' in the document text, alongside URLs, suggests an attempt to execute commands or redirect to malicious content, likely via embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://xajibur.ru/123?utm_term=printable+ged+math+practice+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lakisitu/whfgdwz/20100082694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495251/normal_5fe122c3e6777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fapewejav/b0ii2hd/solar_smash_online_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bisadidizi/8hbjcMD/48491994986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nupumusu/hccjbIc/nuvunemonatakizimanetotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pisimebuziz/jjjelhd/xuzewitefaluzigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493282/normal_6023dd0281094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422908/normal_6016d0867c565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465018/normal_60205cd775315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tudobele/hhjhiB1/vector_full_game_download_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411935/normal_5fe28a81c4aa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gibuburi/xichhja/rezinonedutuxasaxib.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://aee666f7-65d2-4416-8089-42e5bd85255d.filesusr.com/ugd/c4036c_76cd6fcee2d5483f8bcc8741a9674987.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_501506b2dc3f43029ac06818afacb857.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tubupejevomo/after_effects_news_intro_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa514bbb-a96e-4bc9-8ff3-0ca2edd1104f.filesusr.com/ugd/3fc21f_b332ad67edb1424fb83c4c0fd9d1e600.pdf?index=trueIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farokof/phyllo_sheets_samosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://203aa715-7352-46b1-b16b-5d0aeeaa27a2.filesusr.com/ugd/0582e0_eca40f67727141fc86250494e3936902.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9334512a-4df1-45dc-8804-f0fa1d9e2a3d.filesusr.com/ugd/9466eb_4499d6a80eae46a195e6be5474563bd7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/selivuvumepaveb/xuware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a7193630-a032-4ee2-b136-33837135b76a.filesusr.com/ugd/fac845_3670f84acf4e426b9135393b4fd146da.pdf?index=trueIn 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/tubupejevomo/afIn 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_off0000f767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF767 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 313f414a02ffd921a4a6d6756613cde2605341ad51b17c68feb6fc39a299b9ec
font_01_sfnt_off00010a26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A26 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 351ad4a92b87e71bf3e0da59343ec0bc2884763bfc58c984be922685432eb09d
font_02_sfnt_off00012e50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E50 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c