Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97779f8e066d5623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.1 KB Created: 2021-04-04 00:46:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1f74a3291369182dbbc9d8e3b7b52a17 SHA-1: cc2d436a46100ef7c4ab636f9dcda056b648a24e SHA-256: 97779f8e066d56234f2fce529f7026d9441bf51ed4515abe3b9d3aa24968f494
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing lure impersonating Facebook. It contains a mass external link farm, with one link pointing to a redirector hosted on weebly.com, likely designed to lead users to a credential harvesting page. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to political climate and wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a potential SEO-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kefagifugujog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813645/dasovedonotefi_lisuponobitogib.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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+political+climate+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://kefagifugujog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813645/dasovedonotefi_lisuponobitogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484383/normal_6058a15081d6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367921/normal_605b03a075bf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416929/normal_5fe83b2b75d79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387061/normal_60155d7bc118e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477637/normal_60280d3a3223a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazerobuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398334/a5629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedexezesojefib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666283/4738063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bijesuvudapij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860553/51359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujasosepamus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626994/61606.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/kewuxejikiwe/tax_deducted_source_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wediwejiju.rf.gd/alter_ego_french_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pusolefosex/chowkidar_chor_hai_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratesedefavure.epizy.com/community_definition_in_sociology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/galinikagopit/xivuzijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wudibirewuduto/nadofozipogenomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wolawatin/vobobesetumifezuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8f1c0ae7-1ba6-4c51-a623-4d29f5e3aebb.filesusr.com/ugd/c1615c_9809416212e64d6587a4bc403080e95b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zosevid/bipolar_junction_transistor_basics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zevutebulaworel/kyrgyzstan_range_crossword_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nijosinizo/esl_advanced_idioms_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8650d040-a33d-467d-a608-6706f181f11b.filesusr.com/ugd/61b8bf_5e7f836d422a47d58726989b86d38eb5.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001c0a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C0A9 5264 bytes
SHA-256: a7bc7c5eaeee54a81ae1aede92a12d1db487cdbec12fa626bb98500f6b569e31
font_01_sfnt_off0001d280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D280 11856 bytes
SHA-256: 10ff576081225ac3a5928905fa0f1e9c5c94268653f220fc74ad744ad50e4a91