Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ad506390641ff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-07 12:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: da767a6657c4d3a30bd5890433658e2e SHA-1: 8b7bc5487c7dea0f17635861058c1be8a56c14b4 SHA-256: 33ad506390641ff52424dc493b6c53cfe50b62a422f0ff4489f59b943afd10ab
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including brand impersonation for credential phishing (Amazon). It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://vokesilito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400786/jijor.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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=google+play+store+apk+mirror+download PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370740/normal_5fcb946c742e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokesilito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400786/jijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446151/normal_5ff8476322d33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodalisurodufe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680932/2650296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanesoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134369563/duzuwirise-bubijan-joted-jesibovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425917/normal_601e666f68c6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanixikowupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437740/e4518ad66fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473375/normal_60bd0d257a937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4384835/normal_60b50839b35b0.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/9fde5e4c-82cf-4e57-93cb-733c42c6e510/bangla_islamic_baby_name_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetubabup.pbworks.com/f/ditadubazigefobinima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/84a8ea0d-4f3b-4236-adf1-b15b831cb9f5/is_audit_a_good_career_path.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01c3898e-c2e9-48cc-aa9a-e7ea0898ff97/rugapevigapujugele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mupalunava.pbworks.com/f/korean_alphabet_a_to_z_hangul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4131f354-82cb-4713-af3f-09031868a5a6/vifoworumuxobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90e4afae-c6f3-43b9-980d-415fbdd90328/fifty_shades_darker_movie_free_download_worldfree4u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56b870ed-c6ef-4c8e-b195-3a61ea9696bd/what_does_accrual_basis_accounting_means.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1b28b48-f652-421a-bcc0-06c199c000b2/how_to_restart_rinnai_heater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimadutukad.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144474615/79391387691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4db67007-624f-44e4-8616-9bcebde8d54b/sentinel_key_safe_reset_code.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_off0000e9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E8 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 7bded934e2707d5ec728d7205288e7ec2da49311ef1aa402c58a795c59f2a6b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE4 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 61b383f238eb8de4bedcfd4291bb4db1ba37dbf18514f391056ee7292fbde558