Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6cca00fd4b0c297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2022-05-28 11:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2022-07-15
MD5: fde5787ccbc1de70a56b8d218db54510 SHA-1: d9795f73d256bdaca60b4e1f7c740536557dc6d6 SHA-256: c6cca00fd4b0c297773ab4e0b3efecbd0c2963c496c38f5040d2962c3a3bbf5d
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document is identified as a credential phishing lure impersonating PayPal. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation to deliver a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://lafozevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378288/a5705cc1d.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://mifuj.co.za/YmrXLWy8?keyword=tooth%20fairy%20story%20pdf%20download%20pc%20game PDF link annotation
    • https://lafozevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378288/a5705cc1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/11775583471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1625873b179445---nisugiragexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gigelalezijim.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/4/141475487/xidekib-tabililipene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubarepexax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586846/2983089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landvest-usa.com/file_space/files/53174104004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zonotilikoper.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071062/lujepoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koxalisibigemig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854932/sunoxixibuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xopusinad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406491/ruvapabasepenezakixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jumolixebeze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352805/5964105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawijovom.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/3/141343679/efd18f85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xunedoworevesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164322/reravijukowitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xusezazidajitov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325201/bilofagi-vezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/12726266188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazeta-msp.pl/user_files/File/tatamemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/totusenewixajexelarezaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/tasepikoboxapujiwupinofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/sudamiriruzaxigozudomusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodokonodak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134730192/8490310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/90213572206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemere-iskola.hu/images/files/fonakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dosifavexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/3/141335886/xefaruzemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://labnewsasia.com/upload/files/76505272868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boluzevorekov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384542/9073cbf8d8ba8fd.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C8 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 53eac87152002a26a15b4688289b612fcef8fc202c798644c8853bf975b0f8db
font_01_sfnt_off0000dad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD1 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 46196e33227a4edbafe4692055ac373f96a096d708d1205d977d0181aa77f31b
font_02_sfnt_off00010939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1