Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b415a10a49b43691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-18 02:17:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 91efabe3ed6bf0119c69701226db104a SHA-1: 2720a7ab713913123aa5c6899d7d5b17ac730d83 SHA-256: b415a10a49b436914c1b12100431e51476be053820987819d7dee1acaf2b2c39
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its lure, but the presence of malicious links is sufficient evidence for a phishing or malware delivery attack pattern.

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
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=why+should+i+recycle+by+mike+gordon In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369797/normal_60181458545ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubyshup.space/video_song_website_name2uu1p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erogan-columbia.site/it_technician_salary_in_kenyay20lx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-arenas.com/jumping_spider_enclosure_decornzzzx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426060/normal_60143ba5aa331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fimewot.xyz/5150360361zbuee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryse.xyz/46356559709x0nig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musc-media.xyz/how_many_calories_are_in_arbys_medium_curly_fries7kbqy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balifruit.com/487253697729zchu.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://interbankdigital.com/the_game_of_life_rules_2002_hasbro254ld.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://help-verifiedbadgecenter.com/67583223958o23bz.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/3ca2e064-ee6e-4f3b-8bcd-608bdf7e825c/python_set_difference_operator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eedace43-0082-472c-aa1f-3b2a4bf49778/rilabejilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tesapibebujep/bibliography_apa_format_slideshare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/banula/65550523795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47a05283-480f-4fdc-96b0-44a12c26892a/canon_powershot_sx150_internal_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c5b8104-a399-4165-87f3-3ab805d2a3f9/62585419948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ce1e314-99e1-4c34-945b-531cf95a5fb4/85840768012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd5c928b-8141-40d2-9b45-612d4ed972bd/georgia_real_estate_license_exam_prep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdb4cb8d-c1a9-4d01-87b8-51426fd23d34/sentry_safe_lock_not_opening.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3898d1bc-b540-4010-b0f6-94b3f688cb05/how_do_i_set_the_time_on_my_g_shock_5522.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_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 9649e62f8a0e70d65afac02482fe14760f8bfecac2d7698e2f5d7fb737c8c8f0
font_01_sfnt_off000102c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C5 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 30b598650e030f0796b86e3863d0f8948f88f78b40967389449d265f25430843