Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18c84056757c5a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-05-24 06:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 20326c70bae15d3a4c3a70740b0bc95c SHA-1: 9ffbe761ea0a33e63053bc6e09ecf88d14df01e4 SHA-256: b18c84056757c5a88ee058a0afc8f4416a532037c69cb63f78c4a84a4fecc9a3
324 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a 'ClickFix' lure and a browser installation lure, to trick users into executing malicious actions. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one prominent link to a known malicious redirector. The document's structure and embedded links strongly suggest it is designed to lead users to malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=android+emulator+windows+10+mit+bluetooth In PDF document text
    • https://namobilezivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857476/81606095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loxogekero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040689/jobobo_mezizeliwoji_pexizilatoxawi_tedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitivagep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775950/dfecca294339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460243/normal_6028ec8a9c51f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pujowuvorokom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347933/fowesa_toturaki_kiriguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemumapuvepuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311950/3035263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446260/normal_6040a18517a7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410216/normal_60044f81addab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvutonog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136020002/kofoxubiruje_sevavixuguxofut_xojefajofakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nosuzodudoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588086/72864d47df96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biziliwedurukax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889104/2082675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujuwugad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134721680/tixobezatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molekoror.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332017/wagixibol.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/15cdf20b-93aa-4986-b604-09b64733e0da/what_order_to_read_mistborn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01092c45-a5a0-4721-a75b-449dbcf843a5/wps-pin_v.0.4_download_for_windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52fe4e18-8529-465d-9082-057fe9391bfb/86578541381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5be40058-c569-4851-a135-00a1b25f4f5f/39682141502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2c65db1-4555-4d45-bf06-be886eb19113/farewell_my_lovely_movie_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a61b0bc6-455e-4dff-b9e8-71b2873f6a5f/dds_discount_hours_thanksgiving.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6215816e-c418-4932-80c2-e28f26c15125/dish_network_internet_availability.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_off0000ed34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED34 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 34bfc3075afe88f09d3e0cf699c7e6d86a86324f8f0517e78e274712bdfff8dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB4 10896 bytes
SHA-256: fa312a88075d28a36f656171c06f2265932e55f4bc09fff7c24a0ed7a14c634b