Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78245935e7965ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-03-18 01:25:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d5cc2f5c534f0b9135b1578804957966 SHA-1: a1f70580099b146c9b8575920e69773c786931fe SHA-256: 78245935e7965ce9ec06ce985ae0279f7df0da37092a4fc1ca8ab48fe3a6e5ef
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results, with numerous external URLs pointing to various domains. The presence of 'cmd.pdf' and other suspicious filenames within the document text, coupled with the ML classifier's high confidence and ClamAV detection, strongly suggests malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious or ad-filled websites, likely as a form of SEO-based phishing or traffic generation.

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.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=why+is+the+supply+curve+of+labor+usually+upward+sloping PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446151/normal_5fef64d3e20d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4497369/normal_600309fb70b95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-shop-store.website/9855569744738aks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpleasure.ru/62417806307secu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesshelpservice.com/secugen_hamster_plus_biometric_software_freeux93a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4497369/nIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6aae0943-1b0d-457e-ac58-c5e9f549a852/how_to_find_ip_address_of_my_system_using_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0698da67-159a-4db1-a55f-18133e33016a/sharp_ht-sb60_blinking_red_light.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/08bf7e2e-aebf-4c35-9bdd-a5d7a83f2d97/79869925184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f05f3039-f70d-4e8b-b7cd-1e26db73d24e/vejumewudusovavojakizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7afd96e6-4611-46d4-9b98-d111b897c281.filesusr.com/ugd/154221_146e66fb4eba4248876c3bd11fa190ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55454d0c-835e-4c3e-a0b9-b43fb7d59dee/mifinusoviwuluwivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ravuxudibure/bahrain_evisa_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e0271a52-a7af-48e9-8a99-924ce320ec62.filesusr.com/ugd/be5703_11359977a15f40fe90d706e6f567ed56.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ed0cf47-6977-4fb5-906b-487fba34c9dc/tozisadubewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cae59985-e2df-4684-a648-769142b1c205/10168809919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e18e6c05-101e-4f41-9c4d-f518aea09dbb.filesusr.com/ugd/7972b3_3fb8b2daefd649c7a69a96c5ecd86896.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nijudow/interval_timer_app_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juzowilipi/72669521874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinisemowoge/45030925558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jaloto/nemiwamajekusejelik.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_off000114cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114CD 5824 bytes
SHA-256: 4183d2044ea30ffd7e6e76185e9d7962f6b620cd421b505bb6ec3988c25b0813
font_01_sfnt_off000128c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C8 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 85e6504f62866ff00e7b607d6be93f8e69589a1965377626eec46ab3dfe3a65c