Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99ab0eec177f3479…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-05-26 04:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: c120caaa4ec0ac481ac017fa4eb8710b SHA-1: 3ee624a7d6eff552372bf91d4496d3999f80d9b8 SHA-256: 99ab0eec177f34792dfa3658065da55b974fdd146d7e77c852be270265f13073
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://fevobubutexub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481878/a65b3554884.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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=frp+bypass+tool+for+pc+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463287/normal_606897024c148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fevobubutexub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481878/a65b3554884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451229/normal_606ea40531964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabamigetope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493328/fef68b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mofagobebaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633285/859bfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogekotosejikol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400664/1436597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitimewodojex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856527/gabotarodudaboxigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wijodemarivupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861972/6965167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393904/normal_6009f1ef4fa3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383805/normal_6029adbbd1706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370090/normal_600f546ba66a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vedexojofidas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581268/37b52de71c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubovumalez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458479/2377545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485435/normal_601a010f165c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404750/normal_6041e3c43ac8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459784/normal_604feebdebdff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459062/normal_601e33254456b.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/tojazudibumogab/12250684524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tazopaju/sizoduredalozonemamosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rojalexipokadaz/the_one_thing_book_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vitelitubovuluj/one_plus_one_abc_tv_guide.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D4 5204 bytes
SHA-256: f58b35daf9cb1d84caef1c770ab6c4952329eb61d20e9304895927be483fd9b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 8db65adc699bed2ed4e99b174e414cace916d9ae25f4e5597e3d94de4d1667c8
font_02_sfnt_off0001003f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003F 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 93970880dfd90783031aff2ca5ae67338b11ed1cff30625b6b5cf9d79328316a
font_03_sfnt_off0001265c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265C 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 28d5afbff6c2e9e687c0d9657fc0c8653379f131105490b33dc0c12c71f72ad8