Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51e762ccf75d5371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-05-22 02:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a585288344c24d0281f8be390a1c6fd4 SHA-1: ef5c7ea6e4e25b4d2b4a9cff4921489601131ea4 SHA-256: 51e762ccf75d5371ea896466b725abcec691e5c50655c878e9efe5051e65823b
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically impersonating 'Apple' and 'Huntington bank' for credential harvesting. It also contains a link farm with 30 external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and a callback phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pinosapop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131344/vuzenaxewojotat_wuzuvodibonone_rupivukufak.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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=huntington+bank+online+login PDF link annotation
    • https://pinosapop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131344/vuzenaxewojotat_wuzuvodibonone_rupivukufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serudifatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324897/wewewipegelikite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nugekepujipa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318644/xadixene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabajojimito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317549/4838037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poximixej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776069/gisawukesevonuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kavikazu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392310/latazovamuvemakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurivulanikep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525456/bd66ac6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutipofuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135310868/6d224b8d4a57c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruragivelexodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134663557/jufujikodajafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazovosugev/cancionero_infantil_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dca77b2c-e18a-44b3-b454-b8ece1b44dfa/can_i_use_any_spin_bike_with_peloton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1283c8a-8353-40d4-9a5e-a8ff875852a5/oswaal_guide_for_class_10_cbse_social_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6cf5788-dd96-4734-90c2-94b17a67df84/john_deere_used_mower_financing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/guwutivupudutu/how_to_train_your_dragon_plush_toys_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1d9aa29-63c9-4dbf-9fa5-078ce26f2fe7/12688405104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a34bea4-6986-4de3-a33c-45106fd9e123/dutagogizetawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4793854-f2d0-49a0-9db1-5f63ec478fbb/what_oil_does_a_2006_scion_tc_take.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7ec2326-7518-46e3-b5fd-248b5ad00c40/what_size_motor_is_a_3.0_mercruiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jesidofefe/arunachalam_movie_kuttyweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff0e9f20-77d0-469b-a171-0e2ef69e273f/28934557092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7088e29a-6af9-4e59-a7d3-9a83b3d6b8ce/procreate_apple_pencil_jitter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9bdb9df7-65d2-40f1-bcd7-d9d8adc5baff/jijevasobipenixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f485603-5f4d-4384-86e2-57a1efebdf2d/quotes_from_pema_chodron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8bb5252-011a-4289-b2e5-7d7eebf388e9/1260591685.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_off0000edd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD0 4744 bytes
SHA-256: 4155ad859808e20a04472a730056776c793dbf1f57c73319f4569d69f2fe7104
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE10 10648 bytes
SHA-256: a9902baa6df675f0787249eed048eb970c1bf04a1ba640ad16e56acf15d91921