Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2fc071b7af62721…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-20 04:24:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b56dffed4323f28771b39969e99f3c0e SHA-1: 78860477a07e6da7cca3ba65fecf8be27c9738a9 SHA-256: b2fc071b7af627218492784e7e1d55cecc24e2b8a5ea5d89ca1c5cd870cfd640
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm, with the primary URL being 'https://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=symmetry+worksheets+pdf'. Heuristics indicate the PDF is designed to host a large number of links, potentially for SEO manipulation or to direct users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=symmetry+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://gijedilegin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380969/0410e900af74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babixedijifaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135385025/8724598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimidenexikox.getenjoyment.net/past_simple_and_past_continuous_story_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nalowisep.22web.org/advanced_manager_pro_apk_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizenebijebis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303300/xiduvitezib_lupewufevipepa_liridelowo_kiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fikanofuzak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438747/mozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fumizudo.sportsontheweb.net/japanese_alphabet_writing_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuwevemup.22web.org/addition_worksheets_for_grade_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutunajika.66ghz.com/good_hinge_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumixiginuwogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134752923/jawivixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafuvigugasud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135308410/xanewiwikarefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vulefewaxamovu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997320/gekazusozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lomofatawepap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599642/a2bc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maypoin.ru/awPDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://288c7b4b-0494-48f6-8ee2-9dd519b96b0a.filesusr.com/ugd/a107db_2a20050140874a36b3398997f54a6274.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jefitanebigovun.rf.gd/adobe_after_effects_infographic_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nawosineromigi/shark_navigator_lift-away_deluxe_nv360_upright_vacuum_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nakuzafol/20835255297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zorikeroz.onlinewebshop.net/divejusodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/satuja/yeti_bike_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aed022ca-8a9d-452d-9022-56a74a585a14.filesusr.com/ugd/4d548e_8d92255946b946bbb4e62a76df046445.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5548a280-a194-4776-8019-0e256783c1fa.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c1dc_65f3cd384cb94940855b0e0ba5a46896.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://05790d5e-93e9-4545-bcc4-99c37f081c18.filesusr.com/ugd/bff4d5_a4622d45304744bfb38f405cbe47acab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fidalanono.myartsonline.com/pizexij.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_off0000f147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF147 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4a14f0f0894ca43947b3db03bab5ddae20af279ccc5004ce8fe71b9cec63ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10396 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 98ec7a53fcfbe3c35ae1100a185991c930374c93246f3bd1317dbf2d0abb047e