Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb65b7ce8a83afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-04-08 05:26:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b59f2f61cf221496c7bd17f2fea739b1 SHA-1: 0e5b4a6553e959724fe2b2a9729d6b03b2607aed SHA-256: 5bb65b7ce8a83afe3d523e19e685b77cfeb51877daa51fb46f4667d2b261d030
346 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Steal or Modify Data T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as a credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Microsoft to harvest user credentials. It contains a mass of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The document also employs lures for MFA harvesting and callback phishing, indicating a multi-faceted approach to tricking users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 10

  • 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://famimiketavow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873946/xowopewavirivir_kalanonesaba_mavaluzo_vinojakipoda.pdf.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=aes+education+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465687/normal_60507ce9940dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://famimiketavow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873946/xowopewavirivir_kalanonesaba_mavaluzo_vinojakipoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447270/normal_5fd68048af459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410194/normal_602711ccf245f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mezutowede/jhccDjh/collage_app_uptodown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371498/normal_6031bd71328c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/munuluxel/mbEPhh7/kafoxosove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406516/normal_6021a4be2379e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugabefek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775918/fomamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tisezalave/fJaG8gn/juegos_de_happy_wheels_2010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavefamixivi/NiahatB/army_punjabi_song_mp4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424632/normal_5fc7e9e72ca91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajevopado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134456845/karazipijilewabopiv.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/23e3134f-62d1-46d5-b5c3-788aaaf87743/algebra_lineal_grossman_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fakuguvil/jaxedowadagomiwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/006475b3-16fd-4029-a20a-9cd66461f070/avalon_pellet_stove_insert_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/werowibovezoje/nabh_guidelines_for_50_bedded_hospital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xowasosuf/80405797139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jajuzasalikirut/my_intex_saltwater_pump_keeps_saying_low_salt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/poguvelefa/ninamikidirejato.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_off000108ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EF 4984 bytes
SHA-256: e61a542d418f4a9c35a99201822d2533ae294bf3ff179a3dda1787815185696a
font_01_sfnt_off00011a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A01 11368 bytes
SHA-256: e0338c0fdf4f2511cd5c04907eb0feda70caf52d7962df66c3f1377572d2fda2