Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80f0953f7684ba63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-03-19 13:55:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 4c4596bc46e67be3414568b2046108dd SHA-1: 300dd6faa5eaf68a945d257607e4f862e873d1c4 SHA-256: 80f0953f7684ba63a827504af63d9d50d78d1d1296c92a757f558a5f42db0ce5
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The presence of a 'LOLBin token sequence' and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document designed for initial access via phishing.

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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=the+universe+spaceship+earth+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://zefivevolexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637056/787762df8ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujituxozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134625238/bovisoluman_fivixo_kosirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fexilejedit/kbBiagh/unfollow_for_instagram_pro_1._3_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weduparazibad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134710999/zulenazufewemel_ruvebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riluvozig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380056/7554749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lopumilekana/MjihMig/vh1_live_stream_123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378604/normal_6019645cbc6b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujituxozi.weebly.com/uploadIn 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/1f7028ec-31be-456a-a613-095d5c239ec0/87176767312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b315a42-b37e-4fe2-94b0-205876eb9bfd/seiko_solar_watch_battery_replacement_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ed227a6-fb09-4fbb-84f0-1e0f2af5fcd6/84528066972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5dd0c9df-c3a3-47cf-a9a2-30af446467d0/survival_of_the_fittest_meaning_in_bengali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://901c4554-6fda-40bf-8344-1f1538f5dc06.filesusr.com/ugd/a76634_c37dcc8364e84e9e8cc01206f5423873.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d09251a9-b09e-4077-8ccb-24037f005f7b.filesusr.com/ugd/a6ce17_12674a3b90204fdcaea2e5546c396ddc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1be937c2-651d-40ad-a2c3-e1c86ee36676/rip_curl_bracelet_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35cb4d47-d029-4827-9194-97417d981260/creswell_j._w._2013._qualitative_inquiry_and_research_design_choosing_among_five_approaches.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d8b8928-b62e-494c-aa17-aae21fa46e26/vilikisobugopirutesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://591e60e9-54e8-4b06-a9a7-f2e0522969d0.filesusr.com/ugd/1fd4b7_422c879c547842888ccf6123bc3ef5b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7dd6b7e0-9055-4340-ac4c-c34b9f861943/bofepebexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9e0ebcba-7e04-41ac-afc6-cfc574163c15.filesusr.com/ugd/6725b5_58c04f88ddf34716af67d2fa6d30235a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9eb8ee7-e194-41da-936a-4e5371d76513/xenidologagivenipedunoma.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_off00011fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCE 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 64c862e71d301057ea9d5814120fc7c6a357a27618af0cdc58afda9de15a0af4
font_01_sfnt_off00013168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13168 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 4e19d5deb17c24d72c378f14ca3c74433581bd980bec2634ce2863760f7475da