Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c531672ffdb93940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-06 13:06:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 8ac9e819ed3ea18dc81872e606c19488 SHA-1: 727266fd2354b52e036d133b0fb6b827e2e02418 SHA-256: c531672ffdb9394075428bb420fca4d05a301e652e6609f20386864e3a20c6c2
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://fogasofimoxor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071298/281b9ca778c34.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://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=proofreading+marks+and+how+to+use+them PDF link annotation
    • https://fogasofimoxor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071298/281b9ca778c34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tofudilasikota.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969343/412802d816a7b74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebejuguvodog.22web.org/kenmore_elite_smartwash_quiet_pak_9_error_code_f02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodavagimiwebod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346487/2948edb7c175.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/957a00d1-1413-403b-9cf7-13802f8e300b/kakogiluketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13e78c87-f136-4cb6-b043-372612fff7e0/what_is_the_foundation_trilogy_about.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42ef2330-594d-4e46-ac7e-c3ee25a9bb83/vejanobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vunipirifa.rf.gd/bissell_proheat_2x_9200_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab79d89a-5bf9-4c62-919a-cae270ab84eb/eaton_transmission_parts_dealers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f44a9ac-13ef-42a1-88db-18d18126dab2/positive_words_that_start_with_n_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9069d40b-4158-4a16-a196-02ea44221177/best_traditional_african_music_albums.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xokebore/2004_subaru_outback_h6_3.0_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokelur/lixokavipivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vojapu/68329205321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d70052aa-08eb-4381-9070-fb78673a8b97/dell_latitude_d830_bios_upgrade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waverotefiwob.epizy.com/panufunimixopajusepuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/657d9de9-80a4-4df8-8a71-3a2788addac4/what_does_the_saying_dead_in_the_water_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bofake/lozosumezujugogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b463b456-5c96-4f11-9c5e-b802a37a1ced/que_quiere_decir_ignominia_en_la_biblia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dekogamik/titifidiloganikapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/donukadizolin/yosemite_winter_guided_tours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b784b32c-470f-40e9-bec5-97fd20cd44d0/how_much_is_midnight_sun_on_audible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejeseja/61421073767.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_off0000f01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01B 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 3d17b8ba98bef61266f27e1a4e08e18313e8157e642c8430a5ce5ac4abcedf73
font_01_sfnt_off0001028e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028E 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd9a6504e1233e2eecebda36f2ed11afb8421a9734518c47e11c0f63b44c772