Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0dec52db4fc0174…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-05-20 07:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 97173a29c361bc46bcdb338f7a61b3f3 SHA-1: 2066033e5431f00061970c60abd27d74c6450c36 SHA-256: d0dec52db4fc017439f432c42792ed6362a92c57a788c554b1e9f174a216406a
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains heuristics indicating it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, and specifically lures the user into executing commands via the 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' and 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristics. The embedded URLs, such as https://ponafet.ru/strik, are likely part of the initial lure or command execution chain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'dynamic lock screen' which is a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+dynamic+lock+screen PDF link annotation
    • https://desebenenoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348916/45ef7348d00a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekaretuzej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738752/8387786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369633/normal_6060410a2e4a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roninuvanajeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379749/sesewatasoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462727/normal_5fc851771b215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suzagosezamonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446802/rutig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4423728/normal_5ff7658277b94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gurufikenifa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303388/ramabibozeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446643/normal_5fca2d4ec9c21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470228/normal_5fda57cc70bdb.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/dbeba835-dcc8-4895-9b59-aebf2185158c/ryobi_10_portable_table_saw_dado_blade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fifomi/netflix_application_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab249c38-3bb0-41fa-9579-506bbe0d8322/49270344575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/682c973a-0876-425c-8fdb-ba1618540d8e/c_primer_5th_edition_ebay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/28d91686-b633-4f70-9519-5c0c21f74432/grammaire_franaise_vk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0194d1b8-7626-4c20-bd33-2adc96b148f6/how_to_calculate_distance_in_projectile_motion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0967ef1f-4300-4887-a9a2-2b0aef90a0c6/is_the_tree_of_life_a_religious_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sesafefanulokam/kelatirusadigusukavuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kabisebax/opera_browser_portable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23c79c3e-b9e0-40e0-a630-ac61fd4fbf5f/86900203897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zalomi/business_english_grammar_and_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kelageketisefuv/universal_studios_california_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9b6d76e-947f-4477-81f4-ff8abf7dae93/sexual_reproduction_in_plants.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9C 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8301a812e0963997f2c69c75bfd39e7fcc44359b8a43baf6657440e065e79d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e90c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90C 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 87e499ea9990c202bfbdb609c900fb8bb97534ed6ee71ae226478ed19be8f19d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5F 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 867f963c16214251f3b80e293df9c542bcc59c849a2ee3d55a6e15c658ebae05