Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b23c8cd3707bfdba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 20:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ab67edbcd8a0e83e3e7858d35ce5e40e SHA-1: 418f8e791f9b7dbfa11dbf1a6dce549e74826095 SHA-256: b23c8cd3707bfdbab344de573f10a18445bd0b87ec61e25bdafcb80b60670507
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Specifically, it impersonates Citibank to lure users into clicking a link that leads to a credential phishing page via a redirector. The presence of many external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://gesunewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438127/mejabepejovi_kuxonexutexo_jorixetoganexe.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://allytemp.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+replace+a+half+fare+metrocard PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384645/normal_5fdb7cf663dc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesunewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438127/mejabepejovi_kuxonexutexo_jorixetoganexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warenumew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871813/6d2df6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemojedi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135333580/3e2fa4414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373770/normal_604b9e752d135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasuvoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690764/3556784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459939/normal_60273dafe134b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufemare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134855896/zukubowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabuwesajusa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856124/ff5520cf8812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rukagevilatixa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608017/2802961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupifamerimim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134132082/daxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500444/normal_60304d98b33a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368466/normal_6034998870674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423431/normal_6032ab75375e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465145/normal_5ffde6dcac10a.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/6b7256fe-e2cd-46a4-bf52-4d5073667b91/antigone_prologue_scene_2_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ddfa402-2429-4ca3-aaf6-c5ae7352a202/why_do_pentecostals_think_they_are_better.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zusemivak.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144591561/35899873192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwezebom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144701397/53313751605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajinap.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144662613/pividebomopifodupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuwofig.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144540570/32338421961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c68e4b6e-3715-4083-972b-d71c48c08627/radavowixaseza.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_off0001b74e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B74E 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 764b19d64952b0b0e3ec56e5a7164ad02dee0b786f0b393b7e1eecf10393ec83
font_01_sfnt_off0001c91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C91E 12160 bytes
SHA-256: 6989dc2f04a834b34ea0406239495de8df08d5911dad3e3c44a7fa7570798c75