Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aefe7652eeffffa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-04-22 00:37:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: bf3f24632cb3a9f1c177c0f94b4c2ba5 SHA-1: 201bd5d1a479ff1045509156144e176e938c9883 SHA-256: 9aefe7652eeffffae2c474f3884958fed6f9ec85306d841faa9a83950d3826aa
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a LOLBin command-execution lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+you+run+a+diagnostic+on+a+whirlpool+dishwasher In PDF document text
    • http://xofofumireke.mypressonline.com/28195556978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabizepafuxonag.mypressonline.com/bubaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukufogud.getenjoyment.net/personality_types.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://33b7cf8b-1cb2-46d9-9063-17e97cba5e80.filesusr.com/ugd/9edd50_cbaa6791201b48e5a70d03a506891154.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://68358877-4ee6-4e53-94f7-4bd9665c1f53.filesusr.com/ugd/3bbd68_6973ff84a45e4512afcbe00597b67156.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71a5d838-4e22-4830-8da1-7955ec3365f5.filesusr.com/ugd/f2f43e_2bcecb58dcff46769b1172777311a6e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://369206df-e466-4f8f-9771-850d1edb33c5.filesusr.com/ugd/8fd5dc_543ea8e972024de69d630772a4cd5f48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kikunojulejuj/786133295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4435b27-b8a4-4a23-83fa-14dfaf55f0a2/rip_curl_a1015_watch_band.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb15b49c-e264-4ea6-a6c7-8be5a154487c/tedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d49e1bc-c15c-499d-bcfa-4ddf44a93599/football_super_manager_2021_ps4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinusisokopex.atwebpages.com/79000397091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/folexapurilowe/losewaxesiwitabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jiguwuzobozobaz/java_jdk_for_mac_os_x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosego/human_centipede_part_2_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://068ba8bc-08b0-4b68-8151-f3c59c7a5775.filesusr.com/ugd/5a4aad_a341034fa47e4e42b101bb5c685d20e8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87b2c566-72c3-4ae2-9416-5656a7f194e9/fire_and_ice_movie_2008_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b133b025-67d1-4190-9e53-fbb99503dec2.filesusr.com/ugd/caf13f_33d44df96b964f969cd058f5c311681f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2882728f-7d66-4af7-a86f-d1defdb93480/el_lazarillo_de_tormes_tratado_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25d227eb-bc2e-4d1a-91ad-13f9a936da88/pizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95634f46-cf58-45ea-98ae-97a2cf98820c/where_is_the_name_lucifer_mentioned_in_the_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fuvidokibet/roxobujifaseguwipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4f7f339c-9ee9-4921-a7ad-794169edd555.filesusr.com/ugd/fea72b_fe5c9bca47a346648a265d4593aa3a50.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://afa032df-bfad-47da-a9c8-c79260182993.filesusr.com/ugd/6f9b04_67a6e32f496e4821b56e722dfa9ef2b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c18d7360-3707-4bf1-9d6f-52ba7510fa17.filesusr.com/ugd/76cb06_202fcf0e055d4b49a64254f38ea67cd5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0e627107-309b-4451-a84d-e7064c41fccd.filesusr.com/ugd/04c368_7e8a322e081a4c49ad11f1edb2580d20.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/In macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off00010044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10044 5488 bytes
SHA-256: f0197409bf298be49f8c2c0671ee9353ea2c4b018f362e95bcf3d045bf248777
font_01_sfnt_off00011302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11302 11732 bytes
SHA-256: bc641307984dae9f9f63079c9cf4ee58e6282a5cf7ca0dd1f03cf871272954f7
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC0 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 3628e9561057e9d98a380c47382ffc7b2e3c103ae4cdd2fd9e3f3fb85389343a