Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 646f7d24b4479b65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-04-13 00:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 7c70c8ac074c6a2c7b2936bfe4e4cd19 SHA-1: 8408ea2299b565c68c823ed42f77affd35295512 SHA-256: 646f7d24b4479b65898b8fe39d122ba0585b2b4b60ea5bbfba7faac6eb8a9b7d
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. Heuristics also indicate social engineering lures designed to trick the user into executing commands via the clipboard or Run dialog, consistent with ClickFix attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=htc+sensation+xl+custom+rom PDF link annotation
    • http://kujamemapevubu.mypressonline.com/11733861486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenodipemuxok.mypressonline.com/72144995661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligugiban.scienceontheweb.net/why_is_my_keyboard_not_working_on_my_samsung_tablet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gepavozo.mygamesonline.org/97816666883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gebezemimubitup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070169/a832a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapozifokun.mywebcommunity.org/rowutamirekimemege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wowobomufib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874304/d9d615beaa85f0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://587b455d-cc79-4428-8e80-a8b75ce23bca.filesusr.com/ugd/021ec8_d0aae4174d9547bba6941923f096f9bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5fe8224-92a4-4edb-8480-ce065dbe4f1d/iso_31000_risk_management_certification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xipanizi.myartsonline.com/naxorazupezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://87a0d1c6-03e5-4f23-9666-4e8b22a34814.filesusr.com/ugd/3254bf_952dad462d4e47368f9a476939191a25.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc445227-d0f3-49a6-8973-37087862e07e/adobe_premiere_pro_cs5_tutorial_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5529fb3f-8de0-4912-926d-f97ed5208b5b/me_before_you_book_critic_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabevax.myartsonline.com/63051174724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f904ef53-caa1-4f0f-8a97-c50675c03ece.filesusr.com/ugd/2f8cea_79c0f6ab343f4cf8afe2197619675f4e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://569e8712-2873-4b93-a654-ea71b6b809e3.filesusr.com/ugd/345929_980f71b1806e44d0a7d1953cdb1380ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7afd96e6-4611-46d4-9b98-d111b897c281.filesusr.com/ugd/154221_877456cb1ee74b4687502eae56910cd7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://054d5c26-596f-48a3-87a7-0fc79031e5db.filesusr.com/ugd/599026_1df90605336d47609bd69d9fc4d1a164.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86b7bb9a-6a0b-496c-a062-e8aa60c365d0.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_bfcbce67002946668e314f59a353fb1c.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF812 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa6499182c6dbd2d0cea048ff70f0eeb61f6241d4457a39f7c508f1848c721b
font_01_sfnt_off000108e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E8 11952 bytes
SHA-256: 6e2ea2097d9501eddadf3938018a0bc4ddbc1d2a9640ec2e9167a34f74206f17