Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8c7cf1fa15ed739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-05-15 15:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 06e8e320a7411026f29acaf3e83a746b SHA-1: d3d851df691f20201a8ea75cb3d40ff7dceb7f75 SHA-256: e8c7cf1fa15ed7391b94f29fd1e6c50cc1d0ee8460898ec2ba670e582c3845c7
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, including ClamAV's Pdf.Phishing.Trojan signature. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though partially corrupted, indicates a lure related to resetting a Sentry safe lock, which is a common pretext for such attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+reset+lock+on+sentry+safe PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407777/normal_60282c0e104aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496811/normal_5feb2c881f78e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389586/normal_604a1c335d6ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwitap.getenjoyment.net/penguin_readers_level_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakepugikunon.mypressonline.com/bumogenipexedolope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497369/normal_5fe9c6ff326ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fodujijosezobaw.22web.org/jomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489259/normal_603553ff248a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwitap.getenjoyment.net/penIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://f421159b-d329-41e8-bc42-072bc93e4c50.filesusr.com/ugd/65d6f7_6c47884a5865480a9666a1ad27c91e66.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tuwafexom.epizy.com/kalujojilopikovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixoriwabivonol.rf.gd/gefesesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfd70cd7-fbb3-4759-93df-3a766b1e242c/color_pencil_drawing_tutorial_step_by_step.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbed9573-7ae1-4718-9240-3591591f6cf6/20912122225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurubafemiw.rf.gd/72382840847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f47d1903-acad-464c-8761-b8621e8d31a3/how_to_get_hired_as_an_interior_decorator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e0dd67b-d42f-4a7e-8bca-0aab0e2a2f41/how_to_make_naturally_curly_hair_look_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf43663c-e0a1-47aa-b22d-ae9c1b8eec7d/88552097783.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://8459f3b7-b2e6-4b58-af31-5f29adf293b7.filesusr.com/ugd/a68450_a9e1f79dadf347f58f03b50a8439ba64.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sakamajuxuga.epizy.com/pinevadekijofosemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aca292c6-a3ee-4c96-b4c9-db15c8eca1b9.filesusr.com/ugd/cd1d52_141020eb491c465d82b2c5db33e1227c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25b5d61d-7a69-4dd7-b0dc-18cf27b0b8a2/53173600635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2d638b5-d07d-4223-b383-80f0a1173413/75153397712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e3f67bd-77c7-4304-9b08-f86b39ae4524/excellent_words_in_english.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_off0000ce98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE98 4836 bytes
SHA-256: bfe8ba5ba817ed0b551481ad77d679ed56a109b8c769c50bfd11b33f9c9be683
font_01_sfnt_off0000df26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF26 9516 bytes
SHA-256: bbf0baea40993327c4f27fdad72da40856f2132e027079bf2f7e3886e0b1edb8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333