Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da35eacba16ba24c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 13:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6deabaec57af5d2d3b896ae11834919a SHA-1: 3c48fd54f6275930c01e0f1ed772adadd56428a1 SHA-256: da35eacba16ba24c6eba2545782327046cc68d534cc20ccc8a247270ce526837
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs users to execute commands, a common social engineering tactic to bypass security measures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://irlanc.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+change+pc+lock+screen+name PDF link annotation
    • https://xezuzevujuniz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586082/konupozivexum-gewuvewurizo-kasolebowamufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365580/normal_600b719ebe289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kevefavovedejot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719756/tamodite-junebawo-tilawapekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotigutaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134361511/d87346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457861/normal_5fde5c5d64e6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403407/normal_601dc1fd9c33f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500882/normal_600c6309081cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495391/normal_5fec5371e1544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475212/normal_604f54e38d97d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jitijaloj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144524973/73842329941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0750adf1-53e2-4252-a527-6aaa57e4499a/where_to_donate_winter_clothes_toronto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuxanuj.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144781056/34086338954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13cf64f4-a31a-43c9-b158-8a9268ade7dd/how_to_sync_my_xfinity_remote_control_to_my_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/36def8ef-2a1b-41ab-9e8d-5411469768cd/python_programming_for_dummies_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6d5fc0d-7280-41ea-89b1-c21991c23cb4/diversity_in_families_10th_edition_chapter_outlines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebunurivugu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144799299/95760029618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momabigada.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145193052/enjoying_grammar_class_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce38d0b3-4aac-4fac-975d-7aef7cc601b7/kemuwususajawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vifogajo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144499452/wedoseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d18126be-ef80-4d9b-9aba-bd94cf1e88cc/what_is_todays_julian_date_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d4bf751-8a37-469f-b654-4ad78dc08ca5/varinujetilo.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_off0000ebd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD9 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 28ea48c766969d9d985afe744f2784191ef411689b622cf98e6632c3c7346837
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5D 10376 bytes
SHA-256: b43f440e91661e77b96040dec7212947a7d93c1773ca0281b49a9c84105e82ad