Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab259b671257ae30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-09 22:11:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d442f2cf13892309d859db9c97be564a SHA-1: d94f1d0006712b5e56d71fb9c55258be98f75cfe SHA-256: ab259b671257ae30926d051a5c7514b4dd1f8ff354f1f35f2ee6565c5a456a81
266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as a credential phishing lure targeting Yahoo users. It contains a mass of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to a malicious PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'yahoo mail', aligning with the phishing pretext. The presence of numerous external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to deceive users into providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://zisogojevup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453725/4654454.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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=yahoo+mail+will+not++on+iphone PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426408/normal_5fcdb21790dd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zisogojevup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453725/4654454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/piwojosexaja/hcjeXL4/pottery_design_ideas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gebunemif/9hfhc44/best_of_2020_songs_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazazurijufom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814205/b06ba3bb4aa1a1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavediteriremuv.medianewsonline.com/13283895785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382407/normal_5fd70b50a4017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valodoxajub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435871/b55f1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotizede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/tisaguvipa_nixumofana_fuxilimixid_gividejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xunetokawetik.sportsontheweb.net/gujarati_baby_girl_names_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379498/normal_603dfacc2e6ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xovijezup.mywebcommunity.org/nexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wokinuge/F7kwjaT/aurora_slot_cars_ebay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevikafujar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380077/titevilemaxadituso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/serodozire/hjbdGhe/snowflake_ipo_stock_robinhood.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467950/normal_602b28b44a233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vobevufubito/Bidhfha/car_parking_multiplayer_mod_apk_unlimited_money_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vosiwuli/Wf7jeQQ/defence_application_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezerojiw.scienceontheweb.net/wejofujisavubemivupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://muvekalufisu.atwebpages.com/jesemisogasupozalabetedal.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA74 4628 bytes
SHA-256: 2d3cd5466899a8c55f1f3ace54b109bf3affcd64d2a1cac2d3d25a692355122d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA14 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 365b22929a8e3bf10a251770bb4c74074b6f9ce70e1df569b7785456dd21cc7f
font_02_sfnt_off00011dcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2