Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d0469fa773091c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-05-24 06:13:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: b8ca256b61191d79da1aa5326575d776 SHA-1: 50dae6c909e6e768d7cbf6af441c885375a4b561 SHA-256: 9d0469fa773091c302c4ea01fc98454f260e089bb6ad6b2de55c95fb78734c3f
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a "ClickFix" lure, to trick users into executing commands. The document instructs users to copy and paste content into a terminal, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the embedded URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=wga+remover+windows+7+build+7601 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369794/normal_60200a89c106a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500200/normal_6029c976b95df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415754/normal_6033a42c15885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siwusoxol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584737/wopuwule-ditazigolebavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sorawujij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134671526/buxizusorako-bavobapasadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369190/normal_603741ee14ca3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibubelufi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134517595/7693940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485929/normal_6041209bf004a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojaginobaxap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857211/800a7d46c91a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuwevalixur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135990129/boruzabotusoribarubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471092/normal_5ffd78360f510.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/f65050b4-b229-4db2-b2c4-468a48b569b1/punctuation_test_6th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuraradaso/jacob_collier_moon_river_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wazagidonux/powopuvepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62443f8f-b2ba-42eb-889a-4c78b2f9c4a7/42269789893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86d59a5e-0a9d-47c9-bb7b-9445b14cef53/fifinusewefifupakefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9ce1b52-d6b5-4b05-930c-ce9dda9865a9/gre_practice_quantitative_section.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8542eafb-e39c-4ef9-bc64-d38808c6f2ca/67531492090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pegebunov/17973687719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d6090aa-10eb-4f04-ad88-0e904fac5559/what_is_the_correct_order_of_arithmetic_operators_in_mathematics_and_computer_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/winumigutam/64558396146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/262af343-6e2a-4f9c-b443-f61a9fdb0f90/32592685414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdd224c3-4314-4916-b422-6393dd8a5ebd/what_petroglyphs_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb418b6a-ac33-4cf8-b2a2-0f730c7c823e/list_of_phrasal_verbs_and_their_meaning_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4a98d03-dc82-4c94-b015-dae52f67b910/dawasonifebupap.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF266 3312 bytes
SHA-256: 19fe6d3511270ee3ff4fbce704f5f4a9fb9182a4344e37e40a38d55828b07e20
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE47 5880 bytes
SHA-256: 0730bb65f341e3331e222091caecc78538144a8435dd2bbd85a3012d077c3952
font_02_sfnt_off0001125c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125C 11648 bytes
SHA-256: 25f2a49edc56a5d566d467c6442fd692ef8c2eb8001f2e2562314c242df93c59
font_03_sfnt_off00013989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13989 16936 bytes
SHA-256: c6733e3e220d2964eb936a5a62d9e094d3bdbb81ef9b6c34a738ed9280f319eb