Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80a635c19c7f9dcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-02-13 23:03:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 73ca97f8f1f936f80f86358a4fa63a97 SHA-1: 92ca1d951b2b1a44dd6fd9ea15e10da1ede1f760 SHA-256: 80a635c19c7f9dcc0dcdf2e01a8e5631213dc4f7c18782965e29668196dd6b5e
286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing lure impersonating the Yahoo brand. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may be instructing users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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://vujafufitagizej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696128/424f0c.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
  • 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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=bellsouth+net+email+account PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodipenameki/JnxQhia/53272460426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417220/normal_60146baebd3dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409092/normal_5ff3fac9dce45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vujafufitagizej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696128/424f0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406455/normal_600c7c3b54bec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugomalaked.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324661/50eb30e30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowezixuxaxu.22web.org/40600400093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dowusutitozi/fmXicij/motor_vehicle_registration_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369185/normal_602375dad3c82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rirosivipoxutu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302830/xekomonela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kikosezuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378972/sopisigefoxapete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rafumufo/iiqgcgj/xodikasakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tilinonulubun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134614078/e15a6c105be47a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459175/normal_6027a56aa9975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fezagigix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813643/xedifujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452853/normal_5fd1f4848d032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginuzakonufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681862/wuxuxugamaxa-jazapumusajuzi-lezabisavagu-poferadaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusezewepoxir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339989/kivusowatevavitaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jarogofef/gjdjcU5/countryballs_maps_for_mappers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tarobajasupimi.epizy.com/cara_buat_blog_gratis_di_hp_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gikuzeviseg.rf.gd/letter_of_recommendation_for_award_template.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_off00010526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10526 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 228fea308a94095d72690eb533285731f0278519fe33a17259bc23ffc8f06477
font_01_sfnt_off000115f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F7 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 04f0c31099c6c7ef9c0d969cb40eea4643015d328b1f7e01268138053672b3c0