Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59f57cd03ef64168…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-05-26 22:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0d3f9f0a406ff902b290cae2677bb160 SHA-1: c8f40a8a8b4c35e14eaad97340689f817cc76924 SHA-256: 59f57cd03ef64168e02cba7ea654b5e50cc739fbcfdd63470a85cf9f8b4a96bb
246 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 point to disposable hosting services and redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to host phishing lures. The 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' heuristic specifically identifies a Costco brand impersonation leading to a credential phishing page via a redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://pepedojimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069997/pijafobujoked_werifinetiloti_xuwilanejov.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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=oracle+fusion+middleware+12.2.1.4+download PDF link annotation
    • https://pepedojimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069997/pijafobujoked_werifinetiloti_xuwilanejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427091/normal_6009e9aacef4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasipibopokele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136096953/39a625c4dd62c4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lonirukigosoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135965403/7795927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jofukesor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999831/840694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuzunogosur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815213/6536368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464863/normal_5fee1b30272db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoboxevoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740619/9715796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jibeguviju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723477/d28122b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suwanozafedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587456/0b7516ba0de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofasaxoropop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316675/891962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nudopimiga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070212/1847569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newadagunezadev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134684801/1e76e87d27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416128/normal_60544bc1f2c14.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/cd2a559f-2e96-483a-801b-136820a16676/takegepimuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/34716131-0751-4a10-bf7d-24464ab82667/72179476929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/927908be-9fff-4540-ad61-f431b16ec154/nabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/53e21215-b49a-4d4a-b3ce-53effe9838a9/your_first_year_in_network_marketing_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5db6b94a-65c4-4c6d-9f36-af2aa2d2f1cb/xizopevebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e918ba6-6ba9-4f2b-8f0b-cc918b17bf2b/dark_souls_3_dex_faith_build_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7dadb221-427e-492c-87d0-c86fc337d941/the_study_quran_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1461e210-93c2-4e6e-b5bd-8b3029e4a006/is_malm_bed_sturdy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bfa68e6-34c7-4666-ad0c-9a182aa68e23/66178332833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prometheus.io/In 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_off0000d834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD834 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 249f61691423e1568aca3617bd56e3c054ec354e7c80dd50ae2a2b9e2e187f07
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3D 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 4a13115e8b62e9b63006c6734dfb35015eeee2b32772a8d144e873b99b37826f