Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e0fe4d66a8bf3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-05-05 02:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 247872f1440e5920dea725ae51a38988 SHA-1: 1f158bbf83cf3f2e76a44a85ab2263d317f6f148 SHA-256: c8e0fe4d66a8bf3e9c710e596d505786532075163e5369760a6be8fc8447d9fa
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and SE_CLICKFIX, which suggest social engineering to lure the user into clicking external links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs point to potentially malicious domains, and the document body, though obfuscated, contains references to a 'hard reset' which could be part of a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=swann+dvr8-4580v+hard+reset PDF link annotation
    • http://rumepado.mypressonline.com/thyroid_gland_structure_and_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazajujana.mygamesonline.org/bharat_2020_year_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trastenmyqort.online/694265717784cdml.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautysale.site/27714426556z4vkf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://static-start.top/90330610501qv2tl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta.info/the_first_stage_of_the_industrial_revolution_involved_production_ofcirz3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asta-stroy.ru/chaucer_the_knight_s_talet5kcx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peromopativej.mypressonline.com/calcutta_university_registration_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narovomesizi.medianewsonline.com/nalirexofomozusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paruxezogu.mygamesonline.org/vatijivepere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://raxajabidadida.onlinewebshop.net/commonly_confused_words_worksheet_1_answers_usatestprep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72959409-7f15-4e4f-b9c0-120a46af7b42/biddeford_electric_blanket_warranty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4850dcaa-f18d-4916-bd34-1bf87741e2dc/77349298660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cab5cc5f-83b1-4704-955d-3872735a6333/554460762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://75cc4b12-69da-4024-8422-75f9303faa99.filesusr.com/ugd/d6c222_acb8ca4845ba42adae9f7f9388a14163.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://235a1a37-2bc9-4d3b-8f1d-d3952ad9fba8.filesusr.com/ugd/3111f7_90a5d183232f4a38bb5f35629e7d277d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e406408-19e3-4eb3-8e96-61e5c242bc3e/vufizoxowidafug.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_off0000e179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE179 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 47e5488c6b76ff96acfd19dc1abbda7177331eadbfdf53059046cd22e1099ffb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 38cdbda1d29b29232567b045fb46d1b78d04c967f7bebfdf3602efee7348978a