Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52605bcef3c0ff25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-02-18 05:48:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: c1aeb3d6f0e8cc63a6994632453326e1 SHA-1: cbc799d79b6cac1ae38b5d4df287ae65ca61c0cc SHA-256: 52605bcef3c0ff2578e14c8e9e1da193a907ae9d25e2038a613e3a25daf031e9
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into believing there are new or changed bank instructions, a common phishing tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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/strik?utm_term=is+acura+ilx+expensive+to+maintain PDF link annotation
    • http://vinograd.io/zafabotowunidutopoemls7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sefizofemaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266575/nifaruxefarevegufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xivunububan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969166/tipem-nifukogovemer-setemulaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextauto02.ru/dalamutenosaxpdtw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-copyrighthelpcenter.com/payment_coupon_template_excelapv22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukivobiwizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097020/bodoxekide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avit0.cc/cross_stitch_alphabet_templateoadnd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nigenodesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134480521/xutowegutofulijafuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bapefakujina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134483882/zuxogab_tibiliwovul_sufedo_mofapalutomipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejatinolu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438249/nefovuxagutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodikisug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437766/2312843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojopimo.22web.org/18070328468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinavufapakoto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134460237/9110276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://bolizubixekop.rf.gd/bofufenamabewiger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifedefujodu/53031904854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defipedibe/tamil_new_movies_tamilrockers_hd_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wazagidonux/bar_louie_brunch_menu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE496 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 20eb1c46f5f50678673c6e92f91c3fb78516514ae26d54329b8a66f2f9489ffa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF590 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4bfb06bb3b51e701cc5750b808005494339d35a5cb4355302b2732ed104f6cb4
font_02_sfnt_off00011a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378