Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898b4b61c8fb01b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 05:23:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5cae26acb805fcc67167d91a13970470 SHA-1: b681b033351ada262ca9e63a66d9828ccd2d1f8a SHA-256: 898b4b61c8fb01b15e787e27b92082c8183842c92caabfb269dd4ebea4ccf072
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic and the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting. The primary URL, 'https://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=upper+body+muscles+to+workout', suggests a keyword-based redirection to a malicious site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=upper+body+muscles+to+workout PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xekemini/hhchdjb/28124338299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mekurapiw/gfaqCgi/mandated_reporter_pa_timeline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zibepifutidi.sportsontheweb.net/jevovofutobemowegabutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pibilebomek/dOjdEAp/budoxewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekenuv.iblogger.org/netijanitedasokaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mewuravis.iblogger.org/86006539786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dumigegin.medianewsonline.com/48476855719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gagupedoxut/eOigjcx/microsoft_authenticator_new_phone_qr_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jemitaso/ijidpib/guardian_tales_lazy_fairy_comics_locations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kidimezamos/5ZzvigH/vesalitefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://443275ec-395d-4f86-84c9-2ed7a250e117.filesusr.com/ugd/7d471d_ab65030c638b4d7e9a4e4b379cf082d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wawuzir.epizy.com/28012150682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa886832-b9e3-4ce5-a98c-97da2614721f.filesusr.com/ugd/9f8050_1fdbf6343f544382a5f33514266ecabb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fijumusuxolegoj.atwebpages.com/jadual_caruman_kwsp_pekerja_dan_majikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://926da24b-d3df-4aea-ac1b-ebdf7359a9e7.filesusr.com/ugd/fef925_665347ba53d24604994e592acd971f0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9fc249e-2e6a-4908-9eb0-88005465a50d.filesusr.com/ugd/2530ee_a9dc4ecdd6824fa39f1f60b6cb87158f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nitubak.atwebpages.com/96331976526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fubavinexazixo.onlinewebshop.net/job_cover_letter_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vawerudarasikow.myartsonline.com/samsung_s4_mini_display_defekt_daten_retten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f6b99bba-f064-431f-ab68-6eacb91b2703.filesusr.com/ugd/35e1ce_92dee10801584e80b7c182b976f2743d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D3 3080 bytes
SHA-256: aae8700dc3f82ed02e9b3d8843ad2a81c137386f717982beda29cbafea22295d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDB 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 3402edcd897865d7e06ac6ec7245d16b83bd21bdfb64afe54bfb29ee687c7b19
font_02_sfnt_off00010f3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F3C 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 585f84156f840de742eb58bc808ed9e4718cf381b2ff0c45f5d77a4739d34188