Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f2c46f1a8c6b7f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-03-15 15:26:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: aab44acd42cde5b4b2caec4bd783f135 SHA-1: defa86d6132db5fae8b7343a377ccc6e2722c02a SHA-256: 7f2c46f1a8c6b7f4f12360a735718546ffc0cd642195e72cdb1fa621e3cb1618
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical detection for a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier output strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body contains obfuscated text and references to 'cmd.pdf' and URLs, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content or download further stages.

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://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=how+to+pronounce+authors+last+name+hsu PDF link annotation
    • http://jaxebememapi.iblogger.org/xividetesewevifelagenunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jobubexivex/jejbaif/nuzovikiparuvezizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xapanularopu/Jhfgc4L/1963571604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sebutarukaw/ja32hdt/cvcc_word_family_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedomagisuw.getenjoyment.net/84907476044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nobutowug/gdjiOBH/sipivifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zezetemirag/Uididjj/osm_beginners_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/palezubifo/jZ4geqb/cover_orange_2_level_10-_20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxasujigunabew.iblogger.org/iron_man_coloring_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tepugorotewole.medianewsonline.com/41696546669.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://zimejitudik.iblogger.org/7687506068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/relulapezele/dJX2fie/mizuzagunakakuliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nedupugifuka/jcFigRJ/lock_in_report_definition_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxasujigunabew.iblogger.org/iron_man_colorinIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wereguvepowu.epizy.com/78424846092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://45f61934-b4a1-4335-a9e3-e142d9465b5b.filesusr.com/ugd/0dd040_4faa7c9d1947404486365f4d2931ee21.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf0d815c-3deb-4d20-a4a0-1cef4e1a9e6f/life_recovery_bible_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://804b95bc-9ca4-448d-a094-5a8e1ff69a26.filesusr.com/ugd/99d1da_57ce4dadaf2b4c219c06ce1e4d0449d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bd43e7b-fbf4-4df0-a0c5-12c2a11138b1/front_porch_screen_door_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/358a951a-7989-4f2d-91ad-ea0504ce3a28/how_to_reset_router_from_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80b148f4-8ab6-4e5b-a5b4-db11c8431723/nancy_drew_and_the_hidden_staircase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lewinozed.atwebpages.com/white_fang_movie_2018_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83f3c0c7-5910-421a-a7f4-a0d064efd06f/36290274050.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_off0000ef75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF75 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 8eb77590204eb6b48427214cb670f57d70e415126b229060c73a842ff07774b6
font_01_sfnt_off00010122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10122 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 62fd49e455ae5e2659691ce08e98247aa8b5dc00c6df8d34d9b627d5190726d5