Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12eaf31dbefd42e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-04-27 16:29:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8bddd4c4af66eea7f10522150287dcf9 SHA-1: 5c35b460bd8530b042db466d1cc7f513f8417072 SHA-256: 12eaf31dbefd42e7c62967e6f6beb141f5b74ebe843a82838cc95c52f3a18ef3
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and is flagged as a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Facebook. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The embedded URLs likely serve as part of the phishing infrastructure, directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://rabidibizuzej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648686/siniziloso_takoromotiwonu.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=dometic+awning+replacement+fabric+canada PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/putuziboki/CNiib9I/55917248413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nerawotobiz/hPsnih8/sedaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabidibizuzej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648686/siniziloso_takoromotiwonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lajoroteb/cwXggfL/afl_finals_fixtures_2018_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinupolureg/Yehcjca/gefalunifilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxuzemerufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775382/3557674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bininadaxirag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134475951/maneneme-direpifejosa-dumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/kijchgo/visolonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c6506652-bf5e-4f52-be36-03dbfaede22c.filesusr.com/ugd/f74919_eeb8bc9c41014157bc430e301e56f627.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8d4b294-f952-4a11-85e8-0a3036f9bdaf.filesusr.com/ugd/ad8f3a_df171314993b4b71bfdcf4ca8a16394b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d4078116-a2d5-466f-97e6-20d899f6ca30.filesusr.com/ugd/576447_557b1c75f3fe40df9c886b5d40eb5d1f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tiluwisulepam/74648726417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://91953a53-6f32-4f2a-9b2e-0f954541ff31.filesusr.com/ugd/dad90e_f861a7007ec941f2ae62a67b10219c0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8af5617-c03c-4719-b359-7355846489ed/wpf_tutorial_microsoft_virtual_academy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48079be4-9976-44f0-96c8-a0f9297dba46/saxurukubovifuzatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8eefcaf3-52f5-4123-8be5-b1f0aaeea45e.filesusr.com/ugd/1d3654_b20c560ca2ac40cd9e0ca232338f0c41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://38aad9b5-7a72-45b8-ac81-9fe73ce82000.filesusr.com/ugd/08338c_2b80a763f7f44b429458bdcc61cddf08.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukoxisojow/sintra_pvc_spec_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1af3a7d4-5db8-45a4-950e-09a8ab39e5b6/28253753268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wipotegadodorek/ccna_2_chapter_4_exam_answers_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e055bcc9-c4f1-4c6c-8dcb-0912bf54750f.filesusr.com/ugd/b4a829_e97f61b07be142fc94bb6eadf2097f9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c6b89c2f-dc7d-490d-a648-077c51828da9.filesusr.com/ugd/29ab01_e47e3debeab844ae870ba939fb5e29bc.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_off0000d2b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B5 5528 bytes
SHA-256: f41f640bf24fa0ea1fda19fd5243a9c5c7b1e8a4e51d5f5d2ab6a829ae71bd0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57E 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 28c6d1404a8fa9d11ff488cf630f0603b92f731d6e7d3fac7b447641e1feacd9