Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0752ef756d48539c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-04-17 19:42:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 5f236222be54ae475d00bfddad4b3ebf SHA-1: 52d053960eb29638199b983710df0ceefd811ec8 SHA-256: 0752ef756d48539ca39579ca39700b3b5537cfeac1429258fb4e6023d03ac334
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://xisuviwilizej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320176/4440657.pdf.
  • 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=flowchart+definition+computer+science PDF link annotation
    • https://xisuviwilizej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320176/4440657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gidulikegel/wMIJheF/t_mobile_home_internet_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodsun.space/8678213425h04i7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piximemob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371032/xivomogozazopoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lomasamube/jejayhe/97581232586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufevilasok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314299/9cce0b719e2288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosofeguwus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321705/mogelojunadure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rikopekela/bZejf6A/bedifuganifedunigatelesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nufomewo/WUgh9ib/sunesusufabubimodupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanup-sale.site/carta_poder_para_recoger_paquete_dhl8ueo6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perufagumitaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738779/63bad48c13aa.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/11bfddf5-0fd1-4396-94e2-5e117e09d759/jojukibatasiwukenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f8fedcd-12c0-4678-86f8-e2bff7269121.filesusr.com/ugd/70e7d4_9f5f2812277147de946bb04587086894.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f579be4a-c2ec-451d-94ee-532237c06880.filesusr.com/ugd/9f6a24_4cc1a73676364f23aae909cc530296ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fd9f749-07b0-48f8-ad51-68075edef824.filesusr.com/ugd/197648_a9ddd9c3273f41549e0fbc48c782c0fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zozuxukoxo/466120226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c30b87d5-e38e-4f4c-8f61-e356d9eaafe8.filesusr.com/ugd/347120_0296c474227e4cfc99544d04fa698a94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1527c8d3-3321-4e9f-872f-e2bebb57bac2.filesusr.com/ugd/bf2d42_4967a57c77104d5186eb6d058baa0946.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6961ea6-f5b4-44e8-912f-aab1836c9bad/74661320619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lezerawe/death_bed_fingerstyle_tabs_ukulele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc383b16-e9dd-468f-bef5-8f475b88f0a8/zoxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7aabd99c-706c-432c-bfa9-51d992458ff4/bigatokufipewisalozixala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0d36127-d24b-4e71-bf63-da859d54f056/fesazuvugamu.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_off00011c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C02 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 0044aa28c219d701fb31a22dadc1a64ebc0f1b61c8071f13a4205c0fe6f7a99f
font_01_sfnt_off00012e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6F 11300 bytes
SHA-256: e6162657d56b53dfab6d01fc6096b8a0824b5adcedd6a7f1518f331efad5988f