Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36e0bacdab9bcb1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-10 22:58:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: e9b12c4ffb4a6c2ca6b5726f4514dac1 SHA-1: 91e3be3d29f139696779536ae120fdb07cf17035 SHA-256: 36e0bacdab9bcb1b206f4100bb913cc320bf40c647c138661bb0c881f9e22ca6
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing campaign, specifically impersonating the brand Spotify to lure users. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://mitewowepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813710/kozip-wipiviji-puzejikipifari-novuluduz.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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=online+banking+system+srs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sezibagigi/dgdVjeC/tips_for_gang_beasts_game_age_rating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387703/normal_5fe9223b431b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitewowepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813710/kozip-wipiviji-puzejikipifari-novuluduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nivavepe/beidJhe/26564588798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/niserutom/ijeigNM/marvel_contest_of_champions_cheats_no_human_verification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jenojigise/lhajigf/dixie_d_amelio_song_meme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xasakeza/M9gfhjq/free_tech_newsletter_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodulimije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134732884/kipokixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutegejedexugak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135384922/d51e8acd032bbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/remimidotomi/ihjiahi/jamovalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sovanoniwuva/M8ZVTgf/87563791846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/visevunu/Ujhihhe/marawovopazowisizuruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ledodatefu/cIBieib/tuderadarakavuwajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wafanipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695839/2574256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375716/normal_601802897cb2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vejevidumuruje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302175/belokav-wipifi-lototukeve-masozoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://karifopiti.epizy.com/medical_office_assistant_job_description_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4e42e93-254c-4ba8-b495-737f84002742.filesusr.com/ugd/ddb60a_ab4dcaa8cbf84807bfe2830027ca2184.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6131fb9f-3080-406c-a6ab-c4686b6a2f6f.filesusr.com/ugd/52be6f_1dc54d40011c48ca9301b132b33b8864.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mutifitiwexo.epizy.com/arcana_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://73c25812-7308-4b32-b985-10e2a25710ca.filesusr.com/ugd/5b604d_8f9188084cc74c4a81f0b3a8dee004bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d4bcd744-2348-4fe3-9006-05b2fcbd3cbd.filesusr.com/ugd/704566_d4b2854d26e045aa93f1be23e648886f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://konapupezek.rf.gd/51517940037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotifajabam.epizy.com/is_harry_potter_books_better_than_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e97408dc-4b05-4e3b-9f19-f4127feb49ef.filesusr.com/ugd/a42eed_9cf6decede3745d085c2a462a5276474.pdf?index=trueIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F6 5696 bytes
SHA-256: 3135035f0c6011e6a49322a3b4bec82ea7b84e48757e5e25968a2afbdef7144b
font_01_sfnt_off0001044a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044A 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 2b91cd74cc58b13ede3798f06ba13a79f4b45f88c538fff55b737ce5c57f67d7