Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 881679bc4f45a9d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-21 23:16:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0720882be35a825dcffc1b6826e6e9ec SHA-1: 9ce1f1eff4d7fdd713d12f9d552825cdc1a6a3e1 SHA-256: 881679bc4f45a9d57de28aaea17bed2d8aa1a3bacc0b8045c0e183743c887550
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and includes a lure to copy/paste clipboard content into a shell, suggesting an attempt to trick users into performing malicious actions. The presence of a password-protected archive lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, likely leading to further malware deployment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=ubee+admin+password+reset PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dagozuwemep/vgjcjeo/taiko_san_daijiro_2_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wiwuwigo/Usgfeqp/kutatalijoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bewilotaweje.mywebcommunity.org/34882044225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bafujifi/Y7hfhfe/jeopardy_playshow_review_xbox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bubiwalifeda/hdEgcgi/dusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gefimiwotux/fghqjaW/v40_thinq_charger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paselon.getenjoyment.net/texas_food_safety_manager_certification_test_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/movozuba/fgjGhge/formula_and_breastfeeding_at_the_same_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jisepozidis/XHjjcNZ/shooter_bubble_fruit_splash_game_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuwipabobatu/cgiHhfV/tugerovavasumoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://totefopige.atwebpages.com/84454583179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://64e18f06-8a0e-4dc1-8427-9dd81b4bff36.filesusr.com/ugd/baa514_81930139825d4467a4f7348b3b282cf2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c3438639-6a75-4920-aa4f-d1e0b619354f.filesusr.com/ugd/3be3a7_3b074a29796e440c8c81e9ebb503c1c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6314b6e-574f-445d-b926-24b5aff48944/how_to_describe_the_moon_and_stars_bangle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://91313464-3f42-441e-b0e8-b27065d471ad.filesusr.com/ugd/ee9d3f_e6dbd8346ba1402bae6786b846ca0b6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3048fa3f-2b06-4645-9440-2ac5ac245c56/basumanubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cd8c7eb4-1e48-415b-83c0-f9de68fe705d/what_is_work_measurement_and_method_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4fe4f84-f725-46c9-acbf-171611b2ff74/41600315711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/851b9acb-da0a-4b67-bcca-85367cbacb05/movelizegoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://86b7bb9a-6a0b-496c-a062-e8aa60c365d0.filesusr.com/ugd/dcf311_16516022380e4725bf520eb51f3a6a40.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_off0000ef49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF49 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 06697d8479469069c368bfd90eb7217021d82eb8c7017b1991301ee30b98a6c0
font_01_sfnt_off00010144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10144 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c107f0f0fc8ff1b62965c8d04adf67ae259ffb64f752476c328aadc55b609d92