Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69ce5bc72f6d144d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-05-28 01:52:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 827bac1258240d3c10bbf67f838a9c3f SHA-1: e7868342702450bb9029f5bfb40dced684506987 SHA-256: 69ce5bc72f6d144dec8bfbecb5daee52b347dc7deb5639d6f0cda39a15c23eb8
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. Specifically, it impersonates Gmail to lure users into clicking a link that leads to a redirector, likely for credential harvesting. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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://jijixedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398351/kufumifovexakig_mamotalupeloluv_ranamumab.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.
  • 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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=finding+x+and+y+intercepts+from+an+equation+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456376/normal_601eadae3d03e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jijixedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398351/kufumifovexakig_mamotalupeloluv_ranamumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473656/normal_602e78d49dbd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taboloralo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741194/8463012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460982/normal_6022d310b4cb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zamokofoviwikaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815095/6139803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483346/normal_6064dcbc9b00d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitojeji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453493/denemuleweboken_gumofofenuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373297/normal_5fe19e1dc1f9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449395/normal_601d88549aa00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikudirag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040407/bb477e77bf35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larigagip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887586/genunilegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fugazuxelodurip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134639195/kejodexibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kezugavamatuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347357/kudeditijuv-madivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378836/normal_5ff1ce8814bdd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwapitevakud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682402/mebupir-feraxel-dufopudutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387706/normal_6063bb5f69855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458137/normal_6059f3067c894.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/6fe4d50d-2834-4117-ab77-ff33e19460c1/aprendizajes_clave_ingles_secundaria_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/873b2e42-add6-4dd8-88f8-2834be3eaefe/miritevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3334ca0-fe43-4998-9152-7ad066b05678/macbeth_act_one_scene_2_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/12e38edc-e821-4458-ac21-acd82a9ad8d2/zigifotegiburev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5193ad6-9709-4c6e-ace5-529e7a8e89e2/is_billy_elliot_based_on_a_real_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2436f6e-1a17-4d16-8855-99686429805d/what_words_did_shakespeare_invent_that_we_still_use_today.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_off0000e872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE872 5944 bytes
SHA-256: 1e2794b4114eac269dd49091f9e49b462267ded1b3a14d16b7e5680fb4e1aa92
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAD 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 271b143d7024816612134dba84328328eb94d237a7b1b726ff4bb86e565bca1d