Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d3df331f9d1c5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-03-15 23:25:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a35cc3b7a9bb238caa5a33ef4f8755af SHA-1: bfab05f7a143d5f5a11adc2d14c195548315f80d SHA-256: 2d3df331f9d1c5aa0faea39a3af43425e4ad62054142546499e9211ea53cda14
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as a credential phishing lure impersonating Outlook. It contains a mass of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to harvest user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://zetidikusas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740093/sezanuxuselip_litumafez.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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=what+are+the+top+5+critical+thinking+skills PDF link annotation
    • https://zetidikusas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740093/sezanuxuselip_litumafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xemilesexevig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266110/9b4f63c9691fe99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarotokatot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682281/sujesu_buzunokogofeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kowevufewes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134388306/tadela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulebuset.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411431/ligunuleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nufewaxitobazat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748461/xirumuje-mogafanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisolowiguwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134630140/cfa2df269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuverefexogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316215/e8fcc846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokivaburag.22web.org/64643911136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lefesime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882546/xuwij_pevekenumu_josilewad_rejewoziladofu.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/cc87a552-dbb0-44f1-bcb8-b49a767ea907/what_is_the_difference_between_romanticism_and_dark_romanticism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/daf8f5f7-8d1a-4ead-829d-c2ce81bad74d/89715033799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/18de6ec8-9a99-43cc-a7a2-83dae4615e29/pozusoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a21189d1-a456-45bd-82c5-ea5c56ddadab/pipajabutorosozubemuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://91e55214-10ad-44cf-a10a-60a9392df58b.filesusr.com/ugd/e1c37d_172a6d131af74530a91578839b624e48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zeliganav.epizy.com/pudowinepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_a1491d4eedd745ab8f8b6720f0b3ed7d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/619bb174-6d15-4565-b5eb-d732cb060136/kozasizisitusiwutilofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a94e52cf-e0ed-4c87-abb4-1b12b1f7ab80/mivokijilujivoxikifugaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbca4f53-e15e-4db9-9c17-986d3f11a758/50207509740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d6126c3-d336-4044-a9ea-87ca9a515aa3/nortel_m3904_quick_reference_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c285b57-3156-47ce-881b-df665acc117b.filesusr.com/ugd/8d46c2_00bb750178734154814e62ae63011d2e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/989250de-c5e9-4c43-9194-0ce3387ec106/special_right_triangles_worksheet.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_off0000f5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F9 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 1ea62fbcabe6a401e62f7959d0fe1170bd92e3d9aea88f3df320a6d534794383
font_01_sfnt_off0001085f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085F 11352 bytes
SHA-256: b5c6a53c92d3b8d3389281aad95cdccb059332d41d2d1d7de0bad2beaf01c0ae