Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6528f9c023e675a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-01-18 00:53:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d80dfb58aba136fdd93081e7058827b7 SHA-1: 639253d690e27ff6291fe50cb25596c69c27adae SHA-256: 6528f9c023e675a0ca0e752694629f55c3d247b5008d22491e38cf72fcf0c052
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to its use of a link farm and a redirector pointing to a PayPal credential phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the heuristics indicate it's designed to impersonate PayPal to steal user credentials. The embedded links and the ML classifier strongly support a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://tidukefawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134851120/1390452.pdf.
  • 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.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/123?utm_term=daily+routine+essay+in+present+indefinite+tense In PDF document text
    • https://tidukefawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134851120/1390452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suwenadikum/njh2ijy/x_screen_recorder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381287/normal_5f95c03a314ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445890/normal_5fdbb307489fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450240/normal_5fc98b2eb1bac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1184137.mozfiles.com/files/1184137/arman_alif_new_song_2019_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1195137.mozfiles.com/files/1195137/60863371163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lipowuripipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/niredunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fujalapevame/O9Thbjc/lekatofawosapovepepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177680.mozfiles.com/files/1177680/zombie_siege_last_civilization_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1174993.mozfiles.com/files/1174993/tumblr_wallpaper_for_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1166621.mozfiles.com/files/1166621/7918851581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fedufiporara/17098171754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kumasala/bsc_agriculture_colleges_online_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudowo/audacity_free_32_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavugusepe/aashiqui_video_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vebenok/13112366009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wazorixekunafob/98093044477.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_off0000d51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51E 5136 bytes
SHA-256: eda5d3e5502a461dc5fe4f298981d1f5af56ad27b3e1e5d45a44c7a975786aa0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B9 10556 bytes
SHA-256: c5ead25d6d0d934bf962375a924795f8588d2467b27575c0d04854cefff33b50