Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23709df1226a1c4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-04-18 18:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: a36ebce3f37cae2838fabd3ce7e52613 SHA-1: 4db4147894d593c223d3e5db91816afd42912996 SHA-256: 23709df1226a1c4a7b8c7789994ac2e43b1cb0532085b2fa6832dcfb40c3cef2
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple high-severity heuristics indicating a phishing and redirection lure, including brand impersonation (Facebook) and urgency language. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. Several embedded URLs point to suspicious or disposable domains, suggesting the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or to initiate fraudulent transactions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 10

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high 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: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+create+a+temporary+admin+account+wordpress.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+create+a+temporary+admin+account+wordpress PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pufuxarabo/eihgjZ3/noxeveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tb-films.ru/the_order_of_thingstt0kz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menbp.online/public_health_101_healthy_people-healthy_populationsq7m2m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/begokaxawip/Jhf7jgS/taluguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/panafilaputu/hZ3gcgj/battlefront_2_2005_galactic_conquest_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jotoselu/fjgiagg/fun_race_3d_ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theplafond.xyz/how_to_pair_jbl_flip_4_with_iphoneaf2zo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ita-yog.space/64540179052zc63j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paksorond.xyz/xasumakxla5q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-supportcenter.xyz/bluetooth_for_apple1yge4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazers.fun/wijosakijuzugubewogiri2f57m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lovojekaboxi/AXhchfl/live_wallpaper_samsung_galaxy_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tupofelasujewas/ejercicios_de_decimal_a_binario_resueltos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1dbd9180-882f-468e-9196-973f1d37d441/asus_memo_pad_7_lte_unlock_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3a687ac-bdeb-4aad-aa29-3922df677377/3489762564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/widiku/diwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/palevijuj/aplikasi_videoder_uptodown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f493b009-2693-4c67-b48f-d0d7824e4b5f/fry_5th_grade_sight_word_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65f86d6c-cf29-4b96-bb3e-06a682a55c55/kotemutegubejosepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dujepav/pogobilemozodupelapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc4488ab-e3ea-4d56-9580-458ebd92e630/audio-technica_at-lp60-usb_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b501da75-55df-4e86-9eb0-a1a0aa441cc9/what_are_the_transmission_line_losses.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_off0000e72e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72E 5340 bytes
SHA-256: ee85e4a93f80b22ed05ab5fd1e5e89088434a2f97fea5dcc02b9701389fdd492
font_01_sfnt_off0000f958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF958 10080 bytes
SHA-256: fdc774b0624a30c8617593055844913203813f84d27570bd1208780df34a9ad3