Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8cab2afac2d81f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 19:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 47e5da6e46bedddf46d0125e701e3ba6 SHA-1: c191794c2ff8ce3bdf4f06bd5dc4fac7046871a6 SHA-256: d8cab2afac2d81f5f85a1c018b14a6e5e5c42cdc7748a4f82fa33c11994d9e4a
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. Heuristics indicate a 'ClickFix' social engineering attack, instructing the user to press Win+R or paste a command, which is a common method to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary code. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/award?keyword=adobe+acrobat+pro+crashes+when+opening+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kulokozataxat.22web.org/jsa_template_wa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudizuponiwox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740987/kanomifesome-rorage-tigulewoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navawawav.22web.org/belidupetuzapojibesajafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bopunesarikimar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453984/kazezepavijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxetij.mypressonline.com/lexique_financier_anglais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovizakuxefo.iblogger.org/craft_the_world__android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatomotubaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739460/sazisekesetenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farilanij.iblogger.org/cultural_criticism_in_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosutisokalelul.iblogger.org/48103478550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galezarulunozip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896955/fepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koparikamoze.scienceontheweb.net/mituxuwamobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonujameritules.getenjoyment.net/variationist_sociolinguistics_tagliamonte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasaburaxad.22web.org/finding_oblique_asymptotes_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusewuvi.medianewsonline.com/mijodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nefomojuwet/the_painted_veil_movie_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb9345b8-40be-4608-a8ff-9c5427dba92f.filesusr.com/ugd/98d639_5562d652316f4847844517d73e4c3a01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c2093f15-f4fb-4bda-9582-db5404103fa6.filesusr.com/ugd/b28561_9ab734a7476d4ef0a89586d47c1fd25f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dagajevefud.epizy.com/85000975755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dozopum.rf.gd/osrs_brittle_key_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/legipalofi/zero_conditional_sentences_exercises_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5610d23c-e099-485d-ada5-1c5fec8f01b3.filesusr.com/ugd/97e063_5e419637dfa84095ba327eaba406f2b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75e6061f-eb7a-4ce8-b546-077bf96366c3.filesusr.com/ugd/2dfd19_e0cd67083fb04ffab2418e00a9d0a5b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pewebopufupe/newcombs_wildflower_guide_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e5b7f393-9b83-42c5-a877-5b85c0c772c8.filesusr.com/ugd/77b42d_c67beff7a26c462d8cacad04f7bf418d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://buzanone.epizy.com/ford_mustang_mach_e_gt_panoramic_roof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didoratanusej.rf.gd/49622075298.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_off0000ef63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF63 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 59400869262c430ca86c5e500ca78d9cc071245083f235fc7c8f6b4608befce8
font_01_sfnt_off00010281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10281 11532 bytes
SHA-256: a173a64920a43d5a5dd7162ac8c68ce741174032c0c10b16600c6863d0d07455