Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94870dc2313770fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-05-25 12:59:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ac9a5559f8aa290922c897b2d0acf5f5 SHA-1: a9a6b047eba04a27408cc4c83d2a9fde3f8130b2 SHA-256: 94870dc2313770fb870c03fe03415cdc383f5eb7daf72b60179b669f904a8447
286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It impersonates Facebook and directs users to click a link under the pretext of explaining how to delete Messenger conversations. The linked URLs are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to evade detection and potentially lead to credential harvesting or further malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://vatipasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775610/6375386.pdf.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+delete+messenger+conversations+at+once PDF link annotation
    • https://vatipasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775610/6375386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamunazeve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/zamaboxofuvaro-kodav-wofagaduj-kamugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilobusi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134872308/lenorapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gixifufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999878/bekanon_wirep_jimasalate_guweger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozapiko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968993/f88fd9d9e68dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491437/normal_6000c045e0781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497685/normal_6013cae33a47c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goxapixexaze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607486/vozamifujemesut_bupiboxemof_vutibuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418783/normal_60151e2843a8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464865/normal_600ee314b5103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500882/normal_5fcbc5a2aac10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501045/normal_601f538846335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanewodibamejat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969445/7626487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topalezomezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305389/9631010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topudamix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581811/bokubefekipewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koreperuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680900/382867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nerutemiwuxofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398157/fogozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jorokepevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688072/sefamatewo-fibanonen-vevodeketuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuxureriwixivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739224/3074b94792b4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wuzalugiseto/yamaha_ypg_535_screen_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bifamomove/nebexebiwawapedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sefabe/core_java_tutorial_oracle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kukupunopedon/how_do_you_fix_a_gas_burner_that_wont_light.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_off0000ec02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC02 5372 bytes
SHA-256: ade3f12459c35bd0cec3e20c8dee6ab0f839ef6d9a15bdd7044c3597d759c16e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE45 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 65ddaf36755a48245c08815b0379e6a9d9b0b4c979dce6606b17716b9c2aa62e