Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 634ba7a465c8796d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-05-30 00:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 0429069e1006ed449a219b05d73caea9 SHA-1: 22b60bf5ec36891daa0108212d4d91df27c43a93 SHA-256: 634ba7a465c8796d6254a691ef9a334af55aa048ab9c444dba44605db15f1693
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and trojan activity. It contains numerous external links, including one impersonating American Express, and uses urgency lures. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed here, is a common vector for malicious PDFs to initiate further compromise, such as downloading secondary payloads or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 9

  • 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://lapefobok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134663543/9894828925c.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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=instructions+for+completing+form+ds-11 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373997/normal_5fdae11544c3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426816/normal_6064deb5728ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapefobok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134663543/9894828925c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384650/normal_600854c45e6b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4492580/normal_60afed2d43cc4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talogaxuzule.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596774/4796910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391925/normal_60698daac6434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kusajigoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136036420/c4bbcc6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485580/normal_603614b0cd13e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4450248/normal_60b004aae6dbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pifelitasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135350032/gofani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rukutatonaneto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012616/sepevavuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/53ba2248-e3d0-44cc-bb4c-541efe9242b9/sisalovovinisikesozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f7beecb-46a2-4698-b8ae-5547e302c3f7/how_to_be_a_licensed_electrician_in_nc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/adffeff2-6411-483b-9f12-02a0e5497b13/how_do_you_heal_childhood_wounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/766100fa-188a-4339-aa44-a93c67914a4c/3_meters_above_the_sky_2_full_movie_english_subtitles_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3750e7d6-a0b1-4858-9427-4fbac7704a42/moultrie_xv_6000_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e61b2fe-69fa-412d-8371-504952aeea86/34383269479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2338712-128a-4de1-8e46-c003a51ae25e/does_punctuation_go_inside_quotation_marks_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59fd6210-106c-4d6f-844e-98a372382095/briggs_and_stratton_ignition_coil_wiring.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_off00012714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12714 1768 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9c1ad248dcaef01c7adb4df71c22141da68cde87cc5ccff7cadb2d821898f4
font_01_sfnt_off00012fba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FBA 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 636be6d792880bbb3c97ac973d5da1883a0f3cdd249e58ec97a8e235b41e89ce
font_02_sfnt_off000141ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141AC 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 715e1912392065ea5cd28cb09662ad465f09ec1972ae19c74239c17e381f7510