Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d8de071e8ea92c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.1 KB Created: 2021-04-07 19:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c148ed0b354c6bc4a3557016a66c6955 SHA-1: d1d58526d74857882693b0e10cd8abd36818e9ee SHA-256: 98d8de071e8ea92c76f87374e9b629033dd546566dd909a867faa8b9aef26b78
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, including one pointing to 'https://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+do+shadow+puppets', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, indicates a lure related to 'shadow puppets', likely to entice users to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+do+shadow+puppets PDF link annotation
    • http://tufokuxadu.iblogger.org/8102292109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufozawuvinuxak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326647/de5121736e46271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xujikipige.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379844/molorulevibobem-mozopew-zabajewarep-zezuwokibodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuvabefip.22web.org/amar_ujala_epaper_hp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boliwamipo.iblogger.org/abrahaminte_santhathikal_full_movie_dvdwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xipasole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853136/nokelabazosugapefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kajivuzixoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332867/nejimajunupamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwupejobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265589/mononopegupukipazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbf654c4-01bf-45c3-91af-6ee0ddd822a2/how_to_write_visual_basic_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://176fe727-baa2-4f6f-8ab0-cddcd97ecb74.filesusr.com/ugd/45df28_f00bf48388bb43d8953067c78202914f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wizomatuzepa.rf.gd/93680333384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21be6ce3-efdd-4cf4-b3d0-655d3cd2fb25/42627974398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbd703c6-e591-4b87-b3b5-077a4597822c/how_many_carbs_in_arbys_large_curly_fries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0cb84919-c103-459a-adac-79548732d83a/definicion_de_investigacion_documental_por_autores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bed1e925-73f7-457c-87ff-53f226988024.filesusr.com/ugd/d4a8ce_8fbd89829c2f4355ae018d12cc9e22a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f4e740b0-69d0-4d5c-a0c7-362dc6b2ad6d.filesusr.com/ugd/0356fc_85296b260000495aae4c464bd2fe3085.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4ad3dd8-dc55-4b35-abfa-e4877bdcf521/is_daniel_tiger_on_netflix_or_hulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zinuforonubas.rf.gd/tomakesagagebakilini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vabemavuputenif/cub_cadet_lt1045_deck_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eb22cd64-ba88-4d74-9269-d2b8937e52af.filesusr.com/ugd/3b217d_15d31ebec42a4e319aeae1c3e809f5f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuliwisuwig/ribebuvogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wufujudisu/wow_classic_herbalism_guide_1-_300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/medaliwifufugel/celtic_mythology_pronunciation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4f7742a-3efc-4e4b-aa3f-590056cb3636/the_bfg_movie_rated_google_drive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35b371f1-963c-4f73-af80-825e474bbd67/data_security_engineer_jobs.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0cb8In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000159ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159FF 4492 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9fd3592555a7ebff1f3c404a6ee07d7bb69fc9b47ac6075bb6a3c8ed7dcf07
font_01_sfnt_off000169d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169D1 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb5484b3f30d97edd83c47f606b789f28ef796d3ba472ade24f0a73482d8125
font_02_sfnt_off00017aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17ACA 13508 bytes
SHA-256: 74f77a57d6f2db1f6d2dda5b12a4a13bd7b8bac413c45ffdb4bd2cb68fcaa74c