Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62d1d57a328a5b11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-03-17 10:43:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 6d6b5db48bccc778ef9a1f4815e536e6 SHA-1: 5673fdbd9a89d0e1ec49ab28ef867805f0d579f9 SHA-256: 62d1d57a328a5b114c37b22180f7a236d56362a494c1c060b6945d285dbe6aae
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. A critical heuristic indicates a lure for clipboard command execution, instructing users to paste content into a shell. This, combined with the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging, strongly suggests the document is designed to trick users into executing malicious commands, likely to download and run a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URLs and the command lure are sufficient indicators.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maypoin.ru/wix?keyword=google+translate+blocked+websites PDF link annotation
    • https://dawemewi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747996/dokokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritefebeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316582/kixidafebidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lojimosaxamigek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135976806/fenosilesugedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gigirezaxut.iblogger.org/75932202448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jasavutarapif.22web.org/lenovo_g50-45_80e3_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojewewure/axe46jd/tukopisasoporasepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kigimijexap/jfgdRJz/the_walking_dead_michonne_achievements.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruxuvedije/Sz3hiif/33108912010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485591/normal_60129fdbcf6f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380229/normal_6028914063db0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://midepixa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134622545/vevojuxuditifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fedelubu/n2jeUiH/rotukepelidez.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/c4181ad3-5a48-4a10-bb58-b169605cd4f4/jeep_grand_cherokee_maintenance_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dujizadixupodur.epizy.com/pinunimopokanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8b5ad4f-1d20-41ba-b872-571d16979a62/menefopewapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29146831-25af-4b30-8bd8-ef731fbca0ab/zao_an_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26e799b8-a19b-4bfb-aab1-d4e2ee253ba6/what_is_todays_julian_date_for_military.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zepurudevivo.rf.gd/android_studio_gradle_resolve_dependencies_slow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43eb573e-cbba-4770-93bf-748b72669820/34344469935.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_off0000f2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DF 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7c3617175df32b11b209fb70b01c2b3ef929a8a6fe49cbd8429717d4d060be
font_01_sfnt_off0001057d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057D 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 798f8d23f00e66170043b5a764412ab5bd5c93ce548bbc58c8da4a2f90c30a32