Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9211c14a7458fe23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.8 KB Created: 2020-11-11 21:58:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a0936a65f0bc5f6f43d72f6ef131ae67 SHA-1: 2fcb7ff36c08b3f780b2f8257d9a9d34bfcf4f8e SHA-256: 9211c14a7458fe23015225fe1efca868e6a63a2fb8a3db3759b3fa3ac250153c
304 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal or Forge Credentials T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating a credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Amazon and using an MFA prompt to trick users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links, including a link farm, and the ML classifier output strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs point to Weebly-hosted PDFs, which are likely part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 9

  • 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://kelobutino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969458/7735552.pdf.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://traffset.ru/123?utm_term=romeo+and+juliet+act+3+test+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://kelobutino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969458/7735552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jonoxuxiwef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314506/vipixaguba_ziwomovinud_venarotumutumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://povilaromegew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486615/9477827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwojuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471705/be2f1cdbe6b9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wevinavuligi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505150/zonaluluk_bomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xikosenazegan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739601/279303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kelobutino.weebIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugosubexez/pulley_lab_answer_key.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kulinisokakewi/wevotusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/timafatafej/holmes_tower_fan_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/takeju/dragon_action_figures_ww2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rawesaragegugar/1822264877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zabevog/bijexawapuzetatadoritu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001295d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295D 2948 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1ad20f11c14335731f23393d4dc7d25719db181f8662c181c8113a632b9697
font_01_sfnt_off000133e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E3 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 99213af2d7818e8b3ccda47465fede9348fb7ed9cebc160eb1b4408354edf1f3
font_02_sfnt_off000146ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146EE 11764 bytes
SHA-256: 22596e5fa60d663c23eb18c03601b8ad5d4f4d1d411ff16aa4460314f4c14758
font_03_sfnt_off00016f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F36 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 43f4c2919cca7437582f107eca939c3b167e6dc891a4f2917bc095a80734c248
font_04_sfnt_off000186f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186F9 3480 bytes
SHA-256: 01909fbc7547265f5f37c39fbc8d730ae52004f9d79ab38bec0d0d24ba652cdd