Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df9a5a20c90c42f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-04-07 08:27:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: ffe4ce95d59cd3729013f3da391159a8 SHA-1: e935302e548729fccadf2f1ec8cba2c43c8e733b SHA-256: df9a5a20c90c42f94f2dd88c9ba65e49222003fb28ca566a44db7fd67be87f5a
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains indicators of a lure to execute commands via the clipboard, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of command execution lures supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=joe+boxer+pajamas+pants PDF link annotation
    • https://watibovogop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876481/lululenibirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramlaweq.online/331414878221c1ax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mizemetugez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322353/742247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panebafizi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134365464/xikelawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubudodokaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863478/4023667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nunipotewisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892443/mawupometiwuxumale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagezomelebagam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/sedafuvibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xunasumip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696393/7c22bb82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramcopyrightservices.org/5012362894392cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagreen.fun/210665988293gjfq.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://wellwork.site/79635375254e5oh7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zijovegumasapal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307166/7804702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giveaway2020.info/23074149157el6vc.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/73f6743b-aa65-48d6-9280-7351163f553c/67734837729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2cc935b2-b854-4d3d-8499-e3bac5ec7384.filesusr.com/ugd/2e82fc_2dcf7a1b037040c2b5fef9d224da29a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/legapatatezisa/intertherm_electric_baseboard_heater_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5787d453-6624-468a-9a16-26c5f5cf89ef/lasigonumisekitenigarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dopugaxelelema/dodofiga.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cee4a208-09ac-40e0-983f-4c2cc776acbe.filesusr.com/ugd/5ed537_b0e3c9abfd6c4613b93831fc034e69db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gafedupeba/albizia_lebbeck_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6d75656-62d9-4861-aba1-83a6d23298c3/jezopajufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef9cef9c-b4cb-4823-a550-abcd139fa3fb/other_side_of_paradise_chords_the_revivalists.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82126232-a6d1-4db7-aadb-9a3f0012125f/why_are_text_features_important_to_a_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gedexim/32394123895.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_off0000dc15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC15 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 17f47ab0575063fe2556fdeefcb28be92dd094b1faf98fd7840181b106fadf94
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB5 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 532137473e808f91c241f371010c4af6195a53fb4b9d331e6d035f67467f3992