Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1b7f7cf492338c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-05-01 05:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 564e57c1326821e52e97e654c6dc08d8 SHA-1: 26400aabf83647301c252058cb51c1eaeb7dd589 SHA-256: af1b7f7cf492338c77cc2fee3bd7bbb09945084f0e49d4fa5656a6c95268c51c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=factoring+trinomials+practice+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://perinolaguzur.iblogger.org/61368375500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuzinfo.ru/13572288215iwg5q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pifemukopisare.sportsontheweb.net/92654550744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niludop.22web.org/where_to_refill_power_steering_fluid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonudesuwobulud.mygamesonline.org/jazetexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamakedesununod.mywebcommunity.org/second_industrial_revolution_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup750.website/33440426001vj0iz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonawsIn 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/a5d669df-14b4-43aa-ba7c-8884a5db94bf/54647755379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/perurulexi/bully_anniversary_edition_mod_apk_lite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a7b317d-114b-4952-8a6c-d9752e31d9d1/rufoloxapakukasivojine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojenubenizega.epizy.com/basic_english_language_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/267d8bbe-474d-4a0a-9300-36c7fe798aec/lukukovemonufalonatusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5938ebe-f889-4876-84a1-bf72a0ddf307/curl_of_gradient_of_vector_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jalasilunaz/82311652316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukivamo.myartsonline.com/fopavewuwa.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/satudifin/enable_grouping_in_protected_sheet_excel_2010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95dd0aff-f45f-44d8-a4ac-8ad05ff32878/what_makes_an_effective_principal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29f3dc74-a8a2-4b1a-9a47-3dbbe7d27263/what_setting_should_i_have_my_storage_heater_on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devonefon.epizy.com/how_much_are_criminal_lawyers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sigobija/kedigeditibefotigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d22e8eb3-4196-4a9a-b966-e83571aac3fb/gidenogemimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotepopunaj/7757021756.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001355e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355E 5680 bytes
SHA-256: f5a87139dc13afe0e48fb0b5173afa586da58b75cad3eac629bc4c18eeee45f1
font_01_sfnt_off0001489e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1489E 12244 bytes
SHA-256: cce575a5a314546fb4d4214ba83ccea95d1843a1edfd2dcdac286f6c93880b60