Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9445b9659f6c571a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-05-27 03:53:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 99765a07050a4f522727ce8534d4396c SHA-1: 77dc9082dd1023bb05796a18c3e8de803ae936bf SHA-256: 9445b9659f6c571afb2bb7d7f165241184073015a99601b2fe74a29f1863c53b
306 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm and impersonates PayPal, directing users to a malicious PDF hosted on a disposable domain. This indicates a credential phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://tebeneka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874559/508527d212d4.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://tebeneka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874559/508527d212d4.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zilifanaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444715/mafowelonokoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xereritotof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070340/2882020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomojuvugitem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134475437/4591824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexebige.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813378/mematufesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimebupezepufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507041/xedofefofabar-nitadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepagalupotope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265457/zutosoxuzisidu-galelekow-bupukivorujus-nenuzedasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leduxuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814900/bukumon-vawitoxel-mexokavukevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zozopagutuduxiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134669393/dce0505b4d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366358/normal_60518b4a79ce2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402932/normal_602cb0b198c6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/4NO0L8wlyOA/wb?keyword=the%20bitcoin%20standard%20authorPDF link annotation
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6a12ea7-a477-47d4-a34e-02f3486c85d4/xanubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6bdfe11-6db7-4b39-8b13-53ca7ff6506a/writing_idiomatic_python_jeff_knupp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1ba08fb-e148-439e-b168-b95a20edafce/3701512165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01d0f180-dcce-4059-a2da-8e62389291a6/28113657587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ee517af-2817-4e42-b7dd-fffc216bb21a/love_story_album_cover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/072e1c79-8585-490e-af13-956abbde8224/10049504170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3716844-2d15-4354-8cb3-39ca7d76fbb4/52343700187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3c19e60-d99f-44ef-8312-d9beb0ac0208/gawudukanedakabima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06425ef9-8f0a-4060-969e-69a5101f7ba0/cant_stop_wont_stop_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bded83c6-8180-4280-9ce7-47ee04e41bfe/how_much_does_genetic_testing_cost_during_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b6bb293-d846-42f5-8dd6-39bdbb0f6d6a/voneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7eeb165-21d8-45ce-8b87-0ec2572079c0/94323429048.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_off00010757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10757 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 8657dabc25437d7cf88c3a3fd7fe2e3d42605e83aa315c5883912517a0a0f120
font_01_sfnt_off0001188f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188F 11408 bytes
SHA-256: df79b565857422d618619f44205789aa803560545750949e543bb3b6ebbbb9b5