Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad13375e8065416d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-05 00:31:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bfa072a9e744e9670c64deb138eb1918 SHA-1: 7c50ce3e2c42801cf5d0e9c64c66dff8afe05129 SHA-256: ad13375e8065416d6e60e74d97b0b43c9d880f0b3cf30c77a4235a384ad21526
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing campaign. It impersonates Amazon to lure users into clicking links that lead to a redirector, likely to harvest credentials. The document also contains a large number of external links, suggesting it may be part of a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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://wafumaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400811/8236217.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://seumenha.ru/wix?keyword=methods+of+physiological+psychology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wimiwupo/hbhfvjv/download_dungeon_village_lite_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefortykuti.com/9749391679501vz0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483365/normal_601336ca0bae9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyright-infringement.business/bitsler_strategy_manualkxr11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411220/normal_601f9d1935632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-helps-contact.com/58675247718f2ci7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wafumaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400811/8236217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/novupezezis/0dznzog/jodusukizefefadovesovikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gasezojilatinoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455825/teforesiratuk_xuxatelozuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384046/normal_5febc0cf85d30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sberbank.services/godului15c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jaruxabal/5DhaXjd/moola_saving_mom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallehub.xyz/power_book_2_episode_6_releaselmir3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97e03e59-0983-4775-b845-7eadb1e50f5a/lepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/171d79b8-ac01-4d76-88bd-e68f277cfb8a/stephen_king_11_22_63_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50b54d44-73f6-47ee-8ec4-9e960d92b187/fusavolasinugegurolurepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56a1f70b-8b02-4901-b358-ad3802dbca30/jutawukudavevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://57933e30-1e86-4cbe-ad2b-777cb72f9932.filesusr.com/ugd/235f1a_29341ab1988c4892b5219aa840ef029d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c78ffd2e-fc3d-4272-86ca-968d835fb7ad.filesusr.com/ugd/0f9ef0_7b46796478024a82833dbc01479c7e58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aa5f33e9-793b-4807-a257-9eac84d314d0.filesusr.com/ugd/aa57b2_277a96373f09414aad8b61e693d6d983.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2981907e-03a8-49e8-8308-c8a99dd247ad/hotpoint_gas_stove_igniter_replacement.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_off0000f62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62A 5428 bytes
SHA-256: f6cac1cfe7bfea67cb1a6ab6fabc76dca4ac0f6e4ebe8fe0a7f131b1dc6e8f66
font_01_sfnt_off000108bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BB 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 63a7a0d030d3967d01895ccd2a6762b86e1ccaebefb36f3513aed4b411b7f973