Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa64e6d0548bc46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-17 03:08:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: f24b0159a0f1d94b0599d327921da84d SHA-1: f31b0ab21c637e995f5b9dd7caf6e585be798926 SHA-256: 5aa64e6d0548bc46dff3e02ce84c7fe7414312dd9a595f1330759c0097e0ad25
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including a critical heuristic flagging it as a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure for Gmail. It also contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, some pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection further supports its malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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://vulopinuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164419/9f099e.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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ponafet.ru/wix?keyword=the+purge+google+drive+2016 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pobijejok/Vhjjbhg/my_cafe_games_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vulopinuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164419/9f099e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kepemumud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454984/xunuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxoladipezu/b9DBbKJ/jatejopasurejasiperugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakogupomuniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610568/puzawofisutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojewifonutej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883442/bujukevirazezep_pasegikovegiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nebemina/cjjwehh/85064388273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towipikegogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690187/287988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mugegiduveb/iggghc0/powerbass_10_4000w_dvc_subwoofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopofuxo/xhbgdG2/pejawegusudalalugonopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cf336f9a-6a79-4542-9269-5b62d6eb69dd.filesusr.com/ugd/1daf83_fb729ce28a9c47c3bea0211f267db90a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f65703b-d4c0-4c9c-9e30-73c8cc83ec5d.filesusr.com/ugd/54fa57_29e34b7b193f435bb8250ec95e78d600.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a0af39d-ec94-4e75-934a-6f92d7c63774/wilejasedotebeboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eac5c218-d238-408c-98a6-8ff0ecbb25fc.filesusr.com/ugd/b1277d_0e1896267e694f349e626a4b2691c80d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45dcde1a-aed5-4138-b95e-a0f768a283bf.filesusr.com/ugd/89441e_a2def80dfbc0407a889750723e0c538b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/204c121a-8ddd-4c66-924a-a1873bfd9f07/toxerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://729282ec-1290-4cbc-9302-cf8a24acd4c7.filesusr.com/ugd/42c189_414d8620c339466a8682a08623c2b99d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_e6d6806a6c854806aab6e5ee6a0c5d54.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44f39d5c-a655-4437-91b6-62b11e148e71.filesusr.com/ugd/eb4c03_b66fb0ef93904c5c823420cedc3724db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd782d62-f590-48ea-9630-dc1d75d7efb4/how_to_take_care_of_kidney_in_diabetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56f0e7a0-ef38-48b5-9f64-37baaca804ab/apc_br1500g_warranty.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_off0000f297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF297 5320 bytes
SHA-256: e4f59e4db20be1861fabf97a0e5f050058c2d8f3a4624befd856be66aab2afdc
font_01_sfnt_off000104bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BC 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 948e00b42969118e2f959bb664a34844ee0ab7b58c6ea39cca79ceb95464a09a