Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f9d2323d7f1bd09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-05-31 08:33:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6c588479daaf8f88b8d875ebe5d0b25c SHA-1: c0d0a20666649f430b9aee3f80ac227fc42201c8 SHA-256: 2f9d2323d7f1bd094d04f6bd1ca856481d8693a9feb3e779aab3be4dade84df1
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing lure impersonating Instagram. It contains a mass of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one critical heuristic identified it as a brand-impersonation credential phishing attempt. The embedded URL and the link farm suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://narezivif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307162/6603553.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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+follow+someone+on+tiktok+on+laptop PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377663/normal_600d4202bae91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470532/normal_5fd2ae3b0c5e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465393/normal_6065ff990e548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453540/normal_5fee724a67a00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500186/normal_601ec6ff608f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482869/normal_603b2c7427bd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501996/normal_60673e46c8ec4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408340/normal_60651dd6dbf3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narezivif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307162/6603553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454547/normal_5fee9615ccf2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408460/normal_5fd0af77ee437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dufevirefat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438490/a87e9ef398d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418981/normal_6021d1d97be27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374360/normal_5fc9d2a4bf054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaxezoxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776828/6429261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujupovira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134472582/bekavawodup_rawojebux_kokonivorabadi_natebege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufogewanogona.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070160/2966154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badazunezibak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135338398/1170267.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/a18e6f24-7590-4c70-b9f5-78dffc716c55/aisin_09g_transmission_fluid_change.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1a7b01d-d97d-4816-83a7-08ea1821f53d/what_is_6_sigma_green_belt_certification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1634ee3b-61f0-462e-b62e-14e8436b4652/vodexagivomusakukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ec0b029-0f69-4f80-8aeb-291d7c1b75c3/domokojejoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42d06fe9-ae65-42ab-9661-ea8bf1cff5a3/64621072197.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_off0000ed30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED30 5068 bytes
SHA-256: b3c4a1f4eda5a55d954546cbe5b3de7fe4ee6e9003d46ea26394436d04799f80
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE74 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 9bd82f5e7d191cb3fe986d7e2d8b9fac81a7ceb37ae27421f3ab28ba56e43d81