Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a09fc8d5c4c18b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 19:55:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b66eb019e8193b4a8d4941a5473a2661 SHA-1: 205ab1ba810d58b9cde4eeac2b37668f7a203c4f SHA-256: 2a09fc8d5c4c18b70748babd56636af7dbbe4c3264952237e29a651ad8d321de
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, and is flagged as a link farm. It impersonates Apple and uses a 'purchase order confirmation' lure, indicating a credential phishing attempt. The presence of ML and ClamAV detections further supports its malicious nature, likely involving the download of a second-stage payload via embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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://mapavafamaluri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135999294/f2537e678.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
  • 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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=purchase+order+confirmation+template PDF link annotation
    • http://salebobuja.iblogger.org/baby_girl_names_unique_2021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mapavafamaluri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135999294/f2537e678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fojojaroj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453509/2936f236060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xemizawufogutuf.scienceontheweb.net/90196081240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jevakotimafunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878594/juperure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nupesupo.mypressonline.com/64026125302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devarewiwigunum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/jezizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamurereleveti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392703/lufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolojimopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887070/xamamefojawopezego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renibopasuviwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305424/5226c798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87952537-7e68-4b69-9587-d73b1745297d/can_you_get_your_permit_at_14_in_sc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xopemaw.rf.gd/carcinoma_ductal_in_situ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f3dc8b3-869c-44c5-82eb-14ae88d57796.filesusr.com/ugd/dc4ca1_b0128ee1636e49f790294ce9dc6291e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1058d175-53f8-4d86-9201-ae9c1fc74009.filesusr.com/ugd/62a633_10b4d3457d51438bbf81332c0754f62c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/083a0f94-2f82-4168-a8d5-7cc02d255441/14382762861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/faf3310a-34ee-4038-a2db-6583b5731044/kewopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3062b57a-b645-48a4-a6a2-f2ac9c597b7f/line_6_spider_iv_30_presets_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puvepedep.epizy.com/59598995812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4afb87e-ec9e-4ea8-ba01-dd01cea81a86/how_to_set_a_uniden_scanner.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC00 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 7f343c2a716096fb931692e05a400af265e398dea34255b3cf155ae06c82f7ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB7 10896 bytes
SHA-256: e312c9a1b91b5e0923baba58db595be706b6547d49f47ed20b2988524e3c6873
font_02_sfnt_off00012302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12302 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2