Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827691b4adb39bf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-02-27 05:06:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: d8ba442aefb82543ca64036b3ec8add1 SHA-1: 7742b0ae54eaa3388ba3eb63f01d8e19a253149e SHA-256: 827691b4adb39bf4f0451726c8c7da6f09168556dfdfb4b7aa209129c8e3979a
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing and a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jurivulanikep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525456/sebufumoz.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.
  • 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://maypoin.ru/123?utm_term=how+do+i+reset+my+yale+keypad+lock PDF link annotation
    • http://maxist.ru/88097044308dl6j6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torchland.xyz/25956512897ghnxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localdesign.me/nexesulizoru5rqnr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zobelekivix/dUgeJjc/25656678368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pesamelez/hciagfS/battle_of_warship_mod_apk_old_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dusivubeleza/Piegdib/second_hand_clothes_online_italy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurivulanikep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525456/sebufumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tameeniraq.com/677853124091rk08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vash-fasad.live/rawunotewewex2cvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noxivudeva/XMapiin/soduxikazobowigojobudife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixatesar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871899/378be4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozukepob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017809/917883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moxasapiwer/a8Dphde/at_t_prepaid_refill_card_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gikasiful/Ijbuss2/55308592832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobajejuz/Uhcjdgg/62584032037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofifakexetag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134345684/noviwipogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lady-bug.club/loviruvuvavaxegorwwzvw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azakalaza3.xyz/atletico_madrid_juventus_formazionike2iv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/feletitami/KhcWYtX/mermaid_photo_backdrop_party_city.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jawuraxexije/HVzgfih/ding_sound_effect_no_copyright.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italia-doc.fun/les_misrables_victor_hugo_combien_de_pagez4fas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dosojegomugu/TigGOMT/farm_rescue_pull_the_pin_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-siteofficial.site/lanotataposerivumatanddr5k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000eda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA0 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 90d4e474b032fcdff27817e3b1871fd1a46a4c792b7fe503273b133b6df4857b
font_01_sfnt_off0001001d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001D 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 27e7102701183a81eed2e7f01bb2dc4dfc6e5d9f1030687af618f33a6cfaba5d