Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19f7d83ca357ca15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-03-06 13:07:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4c3051dae614920cc9e06d45432ea502 SHA-1: 55c777ab2bd272feeebabc9f166a225191589dee SHA-256: 19f7d83ca357ca15eb7c5e6cd55d5e0b5130b8f0a2c0ac2a81dd9d369f43c97a
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on disposable domains, and one specifically impersonates the Instagram brand to likely deceive users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://totovipuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740708/2692036.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/123?utm_term=preterite+vs+imperfect+worksheet+pdf+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://totovipuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740708/2692036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurricane1.space/4137940951zethz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trysoda.pro/257906842677zdm1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puxolika/fiauDo8/50425463104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerojapozexux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016693/vitekosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedbadgeservice.com/cat_jumping_off_car_memewse5j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coloradocustomelectric.com/14673430207yzsyl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobs-ingenieur.best/viteruxitopumagovomatimaa6j56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveantravel.xyz/a_pessoa_que_amo_in_englishuaysi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jupolojujilozas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598947/e66528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sovejugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134652237/zijaperukubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fetedudi/jbo9jgz/archery_bow_and_arrow_set_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lovaxixifew/jjiqncZ/26141340894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gidunixodon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135322071/9875706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itslm.fun/can_flipping_houses_be_profitablet6b0h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letonolomo/Ihagggd/mor_sansar_ma_download_pagalworld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonhq.xyz/jump_force_tier_listy6nun.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/0a90273b-cfaf-4bfa-9f69-230c61d7fe17/best_book_to_improve_english_vocabulary_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/855abef1-d464-40bf-9435-e1701ad14c45/non_veg_food_items_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1e0b428-3960-43f7-ae69-82599d226524/how_to_read_trane_model_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55f996b8-d26d-4465-b1b6-a2d930ecb48b/189476494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c6d470b-7145-41d2-b9ab-27f7a08e8cd1/visual_analysis_artwork.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/577016f4-9197-4cf0-9509-8485cb297bf5/baca_light_novel_anime_sub_indo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3742a117-0bd6-4d79-a18d-180a4a27569a/duxawabefuloninoxobepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c25b4460-9f3e-4461-a09c-7350344da940/5949103735.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_off0000e98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98C 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 5e2c1bba03dfce57439f98c4b5e8000bb6e1aee1cad29b0a6b54ccedc560d5da
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC71 10176 bytes
SHA-256: d899358c2bd0dac9c020ff4b7edc205bc3c0eb18d744c2b12364618970aff200