Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fd748e270349cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-03-31 02:24:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5c134c7604af1d4bb057e56640d52b33 SHA-1: cfc44f1c9991f9cda6a8186a78a745ef7995d9d9 SHA-256: 5fd748e270349cc6c18fc3f7ca3f840b12547f885e79b64999b7f94252c5ffdd
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing campaign, specifically impersonating the 'Norton' brand to lure users. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://mitenipup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363071/5b90fe5626.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) 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://jumiwimov.ru/123?utm_term=navient+in+school+deferment+form+fax+number PDF link annotation
    • https://mitenipup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363071/5b90fe5626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labiosdewonda.com/67510819466a47w6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igonlinesupport.com/niturevj8zlo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://souve.me/sitinipeteroxegamefejx3p4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheatyou.site/norton_field_guide_to_writing_4th_edition_onlinelzsha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetymirrors.xyz/75225671576p6i32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fit-italy.space/14540678688hwzoi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodsun.fun/karuppusamy_kuthagaitharar_vadivelu_comedy_freedr2io.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-gear-top.xyz/70623291439e6f5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://film123watch.com/what_kind_of_oil_for_harbor_freight_compressorajs69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazesomudari.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070071/6439654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawozigojuvapa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896601/podojopesuvok_dijubetuselal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatekowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776123/jokokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2b81f3f0-3f46-42ff-87a7-5865dd96cd3c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb41f9_bc3fe84a80094c99822416ddc9643346.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73e25548-3913-4bbb-aa69-a1b25f69568d.filesusr.com/ugd/cece23_bb6caab8d33642c0af49dd7b0fe09c5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://504b7f7c-d27d-4f2b-a6eb-e8dc7cf660cf.filesusr.com/ugd/6ba015_e7fd4a37ca4545128d4a44879641e667.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://661c91a2-68a2-4ae3-aaac-ef96b6cc7894.filesusr.com/ugd/b926a8_4811da3d2bab49bda30ee3424794a603.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_b84bb501036d4c9b81a9909c47106f87.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cc67bef4-e22e-42fd-bf01-3f02b15f800b.filesusr.com/ugd/080020_f5a3548618f74de2b63fa6ff93f70176.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9f5bcc56-a059-4f00-ae85-604acd6a3d2d.filesusr.com/ugd/ac9354_511662913c5c4d1b89045c0ae2b8012d.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC20 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 62f2706fce4880b4fc9f75c93aa219fa65e0577680030da63dba5dba4e532855
font_01_sfnt_off0000feba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBA 10816 bytes
SHA-256: fdf769e01c6511b12040e6e5129f2a12828181d369de991dec1e912a39d45bba
font_02_sfnt_off00012398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12398 16292 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6fde0f7d220ad1b0efb89cff18751365f796708135d60565c7c6e1ac4b1590