Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3807d8521c27943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-03-23 14:10:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: b4dee3f6efcf34f0db607a5ac94c75de SHA-1: 529d8281636b96639c03ba0981af1d7f0f1923b1 SHA-256: f3807d8521c2794384943b6177c5dc1a63a16f6f9b3335a8b309ef4d37b3b101
286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple high-risk heuristics indicative of malicious intent. It employs social engineering lures, such as instructing the user to copy/paste commands into a shell or to use remote support tools, consistent with ClickFix attacks. The presence of embedded URLs, including one pointing to 'ponafet.ru', suggests an attempt to download further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the document's structure and heuristics strongly suggest it's designed to exploit user interaction to execute commands, likely leading to a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+enable+keyboard+shortcuts+in+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495839/normal_604d6803aa78c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakawuwujawo.getenjoyment.net/8670495715.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://gonalotuturopil.mywebcommunity.org/steppenwolf_born_to_be_wild_tab.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412588/normal_5ff7cebb0255b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mawakigimewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134875352/c99965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dokakuzod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884054/6791934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitesufi.sportsontheweb.net/city_mini_gt_stroller_snack_tray.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369309/normal_5fe66dac15cce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370073/normal_604f61932a051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425760/normal_603d36861e809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480148/normal_5fc94d385e086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_c76bd7d0c4b044a6b5baf2019a5dcfed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/540ff628-5811-4265-9063-b0ebbd92b99b/how_to_format_windows_7_using_cmd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gubadif.myartsonline.com/sadekosinukoto.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://jimarol.myartsonline.com/everstart_jump_starter_750_amp_charge_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://47a25507-5c4f-4e73-9b7c-0c49514c8174.filesusr.com/ugd/e00bd3_2dab5ddaedd041adbbe0749fec410dfc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a3766b8-a22f-41d5-b89c-68d83a8afb20/what_is_the_british_army_mission_statement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8641c524-1fb5-4292-87ed-dd72f64d6c22.filesusr.com/ugd/9b7d8a_c3283fd7f8c34638958ca7f83399f9bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e5891f5-d1ff-47f4-a305-018c68c55441/how_do_i_fix_my_kenmore_elite_refrigerator_not_cooling.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://de2ee6d5-caaa-4265-b15c-40100ab77d99.filesusr.com/ugd/d43733_0b85ea32b9884fdeb3b9e55e2306f909.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AE 5464 bytes
SHA-256: bbb14ae5dde9bd458255ba2260b13e0509db2a6af0f67e2884919f7dde35fd9e
font_01_sfnt_off00010c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 11064 bytes
SHA-256: a72b071eb2b8509459e215dc089f75304806d6cd504821b9c8305cdf563a169a
font_02_sfnt_off000131f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3