Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 505c8bbb0981341c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-05-18 20:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5c1eea9922530ebf6a56670d3027b41e SHA-1: 732308574e5c344403e29b422ccbd0e07b70bde2 SHA-256: 505c8bbb0981341cb1c11154f79f1cb8f8e91f3d6ab21fb9f8ba8117c5aac8d5
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that leverages a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. Heuristics indicate brand impersonation for credential phishing, specifically targeting Apple. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to execute further malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://wifivufadabigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522009/pulireb_tizex_burotadexenuv.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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=english+to+assamese+dictionary+for+mobile PDF link annotation
    • http://jaladonubitow.22web.org/newoxanozoruzerakipixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wifivufadabigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522009/pulireb_tizex_burotadexenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojikajuruwasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695468/461801d60e4a5fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pexijub.iblogger.org/jopeletozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelubuvotaxid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753950/filolegewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuvitofoje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640236/gabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximesadi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969353/gedivivawomijotusina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sazunanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596286/poxuwufebarupen_xaborej_tusixuvabo_rafuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sezijaxafiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637080/8055521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulipuzajetag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135397689/945beecb29b7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawasaga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969366/115da03d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaxadumumuguxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454216/4216bb6.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/23245c73-0a51-4cf4-a4ee-0f3491788852/what_size_is_40_italian_in_us.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33e211c6-6bb7-4437-af87-2cc1a3839902/how_do_you_make_pizza_dough_from_scratch_without_yeast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b728d94-80b3-4472-bbd5-2d33fe22dc40/microsoft_word_2016_for_mac_student.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe6a996f-15d3-4c7c-9f77-2831acd66ba4/94229337384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db2e6e89-32bb-4d71-a1bc-371753b3f335/bosch_silence_plus_50_dba_error_code_24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acc35e04-e5a2-4bf2-96a3-5c53c368302e/how_to_read_court_case_citation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/490675ea-316f-42aa-a034-9e08cb0ff105/xubapaxemigapulitamini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa5c034d-da49-42b0-904d-214c0ce14632/sitopatotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82056582-3a21-4af6-ac13-f27fc4ff3cd9/soil_mechanics_and_foundation_budhu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dudaturid.rf.gd/arita_butterfly_valve_catalogue.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_off0000e803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE803 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 92b15ee03a4ddf068a947d251edc91ee726a03a29c1f1aed6e0f6416ce430e63
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0E 10768 bytes
SHA-256: d2a3c269473894ce5b24e14739776c255fa3ca0b15e15028c1532edb5bdc4c8c