Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fda284953d8cac5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.4 KB Created: 2021-05-18 23:11:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 87a248118023e97d9be130a512b081dc SHA-1: d6be71580e5151cb518e79e047c06b9833a223e9 SHA-256: 2fda284953d8cac56b2bf47d07488db30542528ffe853c92deb48cd31fe2409d
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, specifically impersonating Amazon. It contains a mass of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, which likely serve to obscure the final destination and evade detection. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing campaign designed to steal user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://pomixorum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606605/538898.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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+study+for+mb+ascp PDF link annotation
    • https://pomixorum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606605/538898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagutakonupana.iblogger.org/xolametiwuzatarefaturolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413369/normal_6030cbe17dc9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lofoluwa.iblogger.org/63554639085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotelebi.22web.org/when_my_brother_was_an_aztec_by_natalie_diaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493890/normal_60556aab2e3e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414167/normal_60162adb637c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385010/normal_5fe2a05eb54bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411708/normal_606276d5f23b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378404/normal_6045eff897b68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virefogagivagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815228/sixomuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4528876/normal_5fc5f41e995ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofemazavuson.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303373/2522193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geworusidexaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306562/8162432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489834/normal_6001392b783ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiwikufebalub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438050/pevisujasufar.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/88655ad3-5301-4530-834e-a629975e804f/86466116041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b79da97-e118-4a9e-a6f8-35ddc2eb5785/terzaghi_bearing_capacity_equation_nptel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed57f5e9-3e82-46f5-aea5-6ef8e16a30b7/3323895985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4bf14093-2559-4d21-b787-daf818727500/beats_solo_3_review_soundguys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1f2ccb6-9129-40a8-98b9-e35944f6a2ec/fitbit_versa_lite_cool_features.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6834bd2-6ec8-457d-80b7-60b4c58ec10e/dalufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c76d1f1-c9a1-48da-92e0-dd747579828c/tedovafiredivovovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70d10b17-1b79-47c0-920b-e9e0cfc04009/why_does_my_xbox_controller_charger_not_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fopupasefe.rf.gd/universal_studios_singapore_map.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001406c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1406C 16356 bytes
SHA-256: ba66391b213237f7e777a0e9e22196b28ecf9b24667e6742fa7c65e57dc92a40
font_01_sfnt_off00017584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17584 5172 bytes
SHA-256: f39523e483dc5be27c5b93d294b4f4161322e587137a53e8cfddfc940b5ff0da
font_02_sfnt_off0001871c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1871C 14212 bytes
SHA-256: 2b15c779977b8f9d97075ba06cf22ced1c0fa0bc72010447f9505bb99fe23549
font_03_sfnt_off0001b387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B387 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176