Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fcefa1d67cd8584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-10-27 09:30:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7d2f3619d094e3ef6c52abf609389c8c SHA-1: b0ffa49c825d4953e4de718f235a897929674197 SHA-256: 1fcefa1d67cd85841e2959bf7ae70c0fe4fba7eb1cfe791bfad6ebddeeb2469b
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirect to malicious infrastructure. The document body and heuristics indicate a PayPal credential phishing lure, directing users to a malicious redirector URL. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://jesasifewom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453969/durikep-bifoxigupu-vadesib-biwufilo.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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=adp+direct+deposit+form+bank+name+city+state In PDF document text
    • https://jesasifewom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453969/durikep-bifoxigupu-vadesib-biwufilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suganolorifumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814011/d1f926f60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikanirirexenad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776133/sitowuviker_tiweferalute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pufotawimudob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380049/b7b2730b3b6093d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimesozarabef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/wuloxogujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xumogimunosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607683/64d5146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rexavinuzuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134308075/11253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409114/normal_5f93eccd28d6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369304/normal_5f905af1342ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392451/normal_5f967d4ae9b7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369501/normal_5f8c26f03ca91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375071/normal_5f8f2988b5f26.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/1939f59b-105b-48c6-8af8-823062f74534/50191288574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dae94c18-e5d9-4cfa-9676-adc3367102b7/55331043990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ccd49b9-d9fa-474e-b63f-fcf7dee1393c/learn_2_fly_unblocked_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f37f8f3-0f1b-4a61-b51c-da3cbe568233/bubokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0ba9ab3-620c-404e-b3ca-e63ee238aa8c/71142714691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voxazedisula/assertive_communication_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xeroguru/47923273413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/levovod/lefiluwazalezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xanebavifamopez/53507376847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/badodemebo/kikevunodomoxipakinuzaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/804f5faa-765a-475f-afcf-5373fb7289ec/jogafuwudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9fc5bb94-ab7c-4539-81b5-491170d17c42/25434318224.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_off0000771a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771A 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 47c1c280a25ca5c8a8614379356062784bf736c6f9c99414e71fad9ebfa3d80e
font_01_sfnt_off000089ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89EF 11404 bytes
SHA-256: ac381cffd7c6e4f52f4213d776b43dae26dccbe1dbd90cb9c03361adb273c5d0