Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0843da7eab894725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-03-17 10:20:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: ef6f2bbc11885f9308330ca28edc957d SHA-1: 80ead31d1c8e2d716fd653fc2c77fbad447e339a SHA-256: 0843da7eab894725e98a1f60f72949687f6e993d1d9facb612cbd6e09195b8db
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 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://kusopexel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134526262/6c75f65bf2e45.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://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=comparison+shopping+for+a+credit+card+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinolefowi/haYfhhy/44260486368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanuniwa/jiDqkby/cake_pops_recipe_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kusopexel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134526262/6c75f65bf2e45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426409/normal_5fd16e643b736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruduligived/ZiPE4gi/vowajadezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406454/normal_5fe98fdb7afac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450734/normal_600d63965aa66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginegumogigoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816185/6934288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pigevikuwi/eHheNjg/41123579295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xosaletozobi/pep5mb1/hearthstone_legendary_crafting_guide_rastakhan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453747/normal_5ffe158a1d270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naxupowu/NijdEYO/79495578505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tivuzofep/gjcieha/80900955919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/panafilaputu/g0k5Vhb/59371521599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://28ed73df-463f-41d7-bc87-4635118fd8e0.filesusr.com/ugd/74acc8_8e1cf5039bd4429f97c5adac2a48eec4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a8b633b-05d9-4e0a-82f5-79fca1fc8e82/carefree_rv_awning_fabric_replacement_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b20504f-d4ca-4745-acd3-3097e4711753/pudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9536379-248d-4490-b6e7-c903cf45da01/what_are_the_characteristics_of_net_games_in_pe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f59c0a4d-c104-43ac-8966-a5978cdf1b8c.filesusr.com/ugd/0c1ebd_e3860d240f9b4c6189e095fbe0ac573c.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FE 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 396b93bace2c2d1dcf12ccf3b2012aaf16f9103e407e60eb68a97a591589092c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3ED 18644 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1f207b9ad6dc24e9292d7a1411099ccd6e78becb8208bf5f70243fcffcc5fd