Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f74ee38d24fa3161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-03-04 19:42:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 08eff3a4664f7129ac1b77185a2903dc SHA-1: 7045dd56d004ab48ba9b7add778b9f4ecd3f80bb SHA-256: f74ee38d24fa316131284c0abc36d680fd83b3bd2d758e344515ac2195debdfc
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits social engineering tactics, presenting a fake error message to trick users into executing commands via the 'Run' dialog or a terminal. This behavior is consistent with ClickFix attacks designed to bypass macro restrictions. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism for delivering further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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
  • 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://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=modern+setup+host+has+stopped+working+while+upgrading+to+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421767/normal_6006ab92301c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramsupportinfo.com/i_am_lost_meme_songauddo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416802/normal_5ff926c4aafbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmostil.top/ritezigiru6ugs6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xaleteser/gBzacCa/18137491412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuvomuvugu/hvLgjhd/geek_vape_gbox_squonker_200w_tc_starter_kit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dosazuleg/6Bgdica/bedobolanero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369183/normal_5ffffd433b1c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gadewekunel/aZuqijc/bus_driving_simulator_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377100/normal_602d88189b4d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zipedufipiz/UePieXg/spaceballs_2_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xeeewq.xyz/how_to_calculate_reduction_potential_from_cyclic_voltammetrykoyve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445726/normal_5ff23dbf46cab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vknacruckalaikov123.xyz/195104872580cj7g.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://b56e00ce-d729-42e9-814b-b9a4b194f5ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f6f93f_07d89d53107b45caa797f56d7b33c25b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be1d055c-b83b-422e-9e68-1bf13cef350c.filesusr.com/ugd/5b1e3c_a3864b104e8d4d3aa5658b6f1b3c99ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ac685e6e-6442-44c0-91a1-b3a367e79ef2.filesusr.com/ugd/ce77c6_a129d2b4f856404a8265dfbd12963c6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2eb5cbb0-4e98-40a3-8857-a8311d456fd5/54899230056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/608f7f84-05b4-4145-b464-8aaa58644dbb/26161977904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/956e22e4-db4f-4a3e-81f6-37f305b397e3/56658732946.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_off0000f9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E2 5456 bytes
SHA-256: ac8c38445a33ef1c257d77ec9bab819dc0057664057125d2f2b125a9c6bcf8f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C85 10728 bytes
SHA-256: febbdb6d7fc3c3769ed12e525deb48ba7b9cbf0bcda053fb6db2437823846641
font_02_sfnt_off0001306c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f