Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 353d0795e2e14641…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-04-02 01:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: eec82cbab6a5dfeb99bed6f8ac59e158 SHA-1: 99f1610830f758e5763283a495f717714c72fbeb SHA-256: 353d0795e2e14641414baf906515c1fb8420be55fd02cc0527d99efc018f4a79
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a mass external link farm and is identified as a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Amazon. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Audible to pc' and 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure related to digital content or software, likely leading to credential harvesting via the linked sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://xipakopubax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966228/gototuloritepo.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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=audible++to+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://xipakopubax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966228/gototuloritepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepokafaru/bicRfjb/53454841051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpcopyright-service.com/monster_musume_read_onlinelqp8h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jabisopomuxo/b1RHjg4/33167556997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mopewedote/iejcjdH/piano_tiles_despacito_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mevazasid/e2UJhaR/naguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusuxoxoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710665/9074344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyudi23.ru/sauder_beginnings_computer_desk_assembly_instructions017jw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rapovixovuti/jchi5e8/60775420748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buwozumu/hhIbcgh/98776004729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winclean-shop.space/16788172198yjhcw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/melipetoluf/hjhb2jd/new_york_travel_guide_by_mail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dusujukakal/iMiiBrR/zazepiresatinojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadenalia.com/ringtone_song_free_firera9zk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepifinifiwiza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134334375/712f954555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allerop.xyz/butterball_turkey_roasting_instructionsjs7pj.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/980d2e8e-a06c-4983-921a-7ed718b5a0bc/nasekimidibamulikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d09251a9-b09e-4077-8ccb-24037f005f7b.filesusr.com/ugd/a6ce17_c58967457a894a28a84ce8e9c4702dfb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://89d37d93-eaf9-4fc7-8d5e-07438b8f18e7.filesusr.com/ugd/e80f4c_659ae901d2984745ab1bab7f5f3b2db9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fb8e37b-e642-4429-af5e-53d8292cc465/hp_probook_6560b_core_i7_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/650e8b30-790d-4081-974b-693055100b96/how_to_change_crotch_strap_on_graco_nautilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3e3188f7-d9e9-48da-9af6-4e6760718ee0.filesusr.com/ugd/4f7562_2388e4dd12ce43afb769922c5cf5bacc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de8b8d89-f3ac-4b36-8253-401a536c7c51/58679230525.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_off0000e98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98C 4712 bytes
SHA-256: f40bafe5ccf28a7686edf5b30eee3340730fd075dbd5be9f7813f3422da5067a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A1 11212 bytes
SHA-256: c2379ffc67202f0a08c44569a29c148cc49b83717f9764662b19dc186128dee5