Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c703eb3ef3d63abf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-02-27 02:02:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 16579f4ddd93f32cedaeeb8bca2c316c SHA-1: 3a015d5d4766ba6206617ef934b179dd3b98ba56 SHA-256: c703eb3ef3d63abf30880a46303975ae45b2ddcd428bd2a7605f5dd43d37e57a
304 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 and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://ruwizugaxuluba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134759804/3578407.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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=cisive+background+check+form In PDF document text
    • https://ruwizugaxuluba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134759804/3578407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jofufunobek.sportsontheweb.net/gowojekitinirakabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurexulekuw.22web.org/44314324064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pujuxapalijened.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136009243/soliloxaxur_tusow_gawibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474977/normal_6037a8bb68908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426822/normal_5fe49a85da004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393346/normal_5fd7cac0bf639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudasajaje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362454/jiwibale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokuvaput.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589987/4048b44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zasefupaboz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302972/sulubunigixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotozefubineru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576546/f43f6cb6d85b1f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitijozis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134372299/kifezafe_nigibaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465003/normal_60228bafa3b6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374376/normal_5fea347aaa0a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puzelosepe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317481/9984417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://palumigokaximeg.epizy.com/answer_the_following_questions_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baverasoge.epizy.com/taveripisezekuxukofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixeduteni.epizy.com/guess_the_brand_cheat_sheet.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off000100d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D7 6872 bytes
SHA-256: bdeee27b6f3fdebd23c80054e871120672e89c494bfae03318cdcbf718eb61ef
font_01_sfnt_off0001122e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122E 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 88f71c3e3fcbd3e604ed05be99ae0bffcb4c76c5afa622951fa736c11209b690
font_02_sfnt_off00012501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12501 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 1df6957e01a506a6075a0272b70e236dc74051e1d2bac4329ecdcbcd97f62d8c