Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8208f14452c5c2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-05 13:23:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bc0b3b292dfa37104fa356787e6e26dd SHA-1: 50c6bb99f2f42232f0ce79429467d9602d23dced SHA-256: d8208f14452c5c2d4c33c5403e79ca89787419d3b98c043a25cf6dcca6ac7c83
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates it attempts social engineering by instructing the user to press Win+R or paste a command, a common tactic to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary code. The document also contains a large number of external links, suggesting it may be part of a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=java++failed+win+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://nirasiban.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344158/gujulevugilibo-pufiji-libokanivapala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titevajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741099/b7d11127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dasifapuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454731/7614399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruwixotuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131383/d6d270ac8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vebupanulaxufe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134393715/vugazolaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4393883/normal_60b5b0ccaa06c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redilabow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316718/numisajowugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4499999/normal_5fcd13a6d4209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesunewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438127/a4c46d09bf62349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gidafefutor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040883/gasepu-zeromif.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/018a188c-3960-4f45-a80f-df77ff43fb6d/where_is_thermal_fuse_on_admiral_dryer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5919eef-29b1-49bd-a567-03f841c5a7e9/does_l_kill_light_at_the_end_of_death_note.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibumezi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144455133/teketebukemogesotelanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/260abf68-6c4d-4a83-a8ce-fd39daecbf3c/what_is_the_plus_sign_with_circle_on_samsung.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sagidetubi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144623334/what_is_delta_in_iron_carbon_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobifapig.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144657774/lotowemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2f803be-82e4-4a00-b897-e0c7d676c793/suduzemanupapajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2af158e-6474-4b97-b604-921521ff37d7/dish_tv_pay_bill_by_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubuzefi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144554442/6th_grade_math_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vafobotigef.pbworks.com/f/kathryn_kuhlman_books_free_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e39d76ce-4be1-48e0-b5f1-f369194af898/11417787003.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_off0000e8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C5 4964 bytes
SHA-256: e8781ce51ced7811c0d845293b40c078990bd0a1a1ff85621c1902c4160e13af
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E3 12216 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8f5df880ed66009b5b35dda792b7695a37416e0a6f83339fdcda6d1d37c01f