Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c4c6a19131cd12d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-03-26 08:56:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d7e52007d85df990c24c3e6763c445de SHA-1: dfb9a54aa00267119b683552d85581f20aff909d SHA-256: 8c4c6a19131cd12dc784b597e7df97db7c65f73800a752baf2d73c70005fe0bb
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, indicative of a link farm, which is often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristic point towards potential redirection to malicious sites or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=surface+area+and+volume+of+similar+solids+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://cardio-natural.info/facebook_business_page_help_chatm9z76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jenejipita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473981/125456cfb20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495385/normal_5fc79ff09bc29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368504/normal_60491b1202cd3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366659/normal_6020a837876b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-favshopd.online/29139591173r348k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testvvd.xyz/forecasted_budget_templatec2hz8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390071/normal_5fc5c4ef0f1be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damita.fun/how_to_use_a_curling_iron_for_beginners8927n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallles.ru/karumozu1v0n0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revuduxaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135333309/9211465.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://sallles.ru/karumoIn 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/8ef61832-5e99-4a28-afde-0006690aacb2/masukumuniremiwidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c875a487-1020-404c-9df2-dc0649ad377c/freedman_pisani_purves_statistics_4th_ed._w._w._norton_2007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8332fe31-dc91-4e39-9712-73c4be963ae3/what_should_my_honeywell_humidifier_be_set_at.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://21e323bd-7fdd-46e9-a6c7-4880e76d7610.filesusr.com/ugd/0a51c1_67e21408d62549e7a7e5790fdab66177.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec75ba9f-29a7-4b73-bb51-4c951d20089f.filesusr.com/ugd/17cde0_016892d9f593450d9380b04c5a8e941d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://11ab4cf5-156d-4417-99e9-5039b2a7eb5f.filesusr.com/ugd/82d61e_4392a01be46b461e9f0acdb0b3d36911.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47718dd2-8450-42ec-942c-e251defd6ae4/what_are_the_conventions_of_detective_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://200ee3fc-349d-4871-b5c3-2c1c69b60476.filesusr.com/ugd/7b00a0_3ff14f2ca3f64755b4f5ec0cb89711ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f499a9ea-5579-4d3c-a180-ba191067f9b7.filesusr.com/ugd/34ec99_3f850db2faa042d7b41036159d3ad23f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://26577e91-18e8-42c3-8e85-49dcca1d6605.filesusr.com/ugd/195787_43d9267b5eac4f729ed4b7bedd812b79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/838ff062-3999-4bfc-8ff9-da2b875cbcc9/master_forge_grill_burner_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f7cac2f2-528f-490f-9bef-cb2448a877de.filesusr.com/ugd/529ba0_983756f550ec4195a407b364ac9b1571.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AE 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 57287ecbc4c0ec157974b8d855234733c22421d369ec33b1ddcbe7c6ba1d35d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010a90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A90 11492 bytes
SHA-256: 26d9d925c1b6263c03e1bca8af0091e3967691592518fa1955620ce2a50a4fe7
font_02_sfnt_off00013225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13225 16060 bytes
SHA-256: ae97ebdbf5cb6679ee3ae7f6f8963da9ec2437ada1f672a33085bc8cbe806833