Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7671f72212aae9f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.6 KB Created: 2021-03-29 15:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a7c7fbcd427c495826dc2b2ce7135e69 SHA-1: a17a78b29a0d7ff6bac239e680cd34f8d678d0ce SHA-256: 7671f72212aae9f604f95f8b93ae8014a8e5be04cb9bdeebb8d1049e8251c142
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics confirm its malicious nature. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or potentially execute commands, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=bayesian+analysis+with+python+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bimonetejatoleb.mygamesonline.org/math_expressions_grade_5_volume_1_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455914/normal_60331b9103f05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suxoxaxowigab.scienceontheweb.net/suxoderazabokujelivuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fadirepux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438814/00830638341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palupalukagu.mygamesonline.org/kinipewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiselewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606631/nadisonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485939/normal_6047208e86b24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403936/normal_5fcdf3038ddf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rerofijujujedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872137/66452.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://kakafeg.scienceontheweb.net/4.1_factors_that_affect_climate_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploaIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/loxopudizus/fruits_and_vegetables_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fd979ec-16a4-41c9-8b44-9b2c15ebe0b6/96423511502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56b82118-148c-4ffa-98f3-8755999de8a6/why_walmart_failed_in_south_korea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sisaxu/codex_bezae_cantabrigiensis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01ff432c-8937-4911-8434-94073fc5c81a/bosowajaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb7d96f8-ef0e-49d3-ad64-19d5e7e4b377/43190689683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a95200cf-1c31-4fc7-8d03-dc49e8b0fb4b/how_to_change_rip_curl_watch_band.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2b84644-ae15-4f8d-ada0-ae851502a849/bewukewenamorabodizati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89417a61-f232-479a-951b-dcc1ecf0247f/gupumatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/perurulexi/tizolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef954ef3-d958-481b-9c19-2255023c9287/hp_pavilion_dv6_battery_driver_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/moduxanakuri/keeps_saying_my_hp_printer_is_offline.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_off0001a355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A355 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 788b1140009e8e25a82644cd96f79e64ccfb9d2d9ec795d12861f7192b62e8c9
font_01_sfnt_off0001b56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B56A 12756 bytes
SHA-256: a6c8cf3601beb92bc31e45c38922b47fe23e7766b071499468a9a4160069d1cc