Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a5455dd59d8c20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2020-11-16 23:47:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 59ed71d64e5e9afa50e4e3192918e140 SHA-1: 5ad6d8fcf3996e9f6bf418be8790d376e2e1776e SHA-256: 32a5455dd59d8c20cfaf13148f2b2464cb51ee223f0249b83e878d7651d4cb38
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing and a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://betoxugibujimiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071043/buvavutafepozer.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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://trafffe.ru/strik?utm_term=softwareag+webmail+login PDF link annotation
    • https://betoxugibujimiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071043/buvavutafepozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379841/normal_5f9cceaa9e38b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numuzobiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589566/49b8bbc53cee084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemiwanot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134495393/bdb01c5e306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumogifizutuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134527103/6339283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwuperozaposa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303395/xoribavinij-xinamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479214/normal_5fac01a86d27b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392872/normal_5f9231da2765a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424328/normal_5faa4f4501cf1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366620/normal_5f88260e6c3d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foroziroxodom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647192/xamina-vusanot-kosan-morexono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofobodobade.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444694/1022236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390068/normal_5f9063617a12e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nekekijubexofus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587401/laxezu.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/50193d2e-6239-40de-8507-42c15e749c83/sixobejezikajigidazadula.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_off0000d76d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD76D 5244 bytes
SHA-256: bc3c3ec149f1f263dcab0a5c1a72ec913da9af0966e930348233d6c8055a9cf3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE947 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 8da7263e251a72438c420afcf08e6b0a6efe72d475c933e2dbd972fb513efbb5