Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0d0365deb35bb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-17 02:29:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: d6ec8298054c2c3298b3a008a7007b98 SHA-1: a58a0af96fd55d52c2be8b6635fc72f275f264a1 SHA-256: cc0d0365deb35bb37551e288b74fe74bd29f6bf4908ad7cc34ff6d55d6543764
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing lure impersonating LinkedIn. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the critical heuristic 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' strongly indicate a phishing attempt, likely to harvest credentials or redirect to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kavekoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326791/8080247.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://jumiwimov.ru/wix?keyword=introduction+to+quantum+mechanics+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vegedusovo/ghglihs/city_car_driving_simulator_free_download_full_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fipimomozuk/ijbrbii/cataclysm_dark_days_ahead_chesthole_tileset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kogujipubap/idRsHje/53446649017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pijuvedozuw/jjFiOjd/dream_piano_music_game_mod_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xixujipum/ifjbhmR/donate_money_anonymously_paypal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lekusovu/jif441B/pikmi_pops_giant_flips_bunny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kavekoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326791/8080247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jupavovol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314217/8273274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zirevazul/hdsKhjn/sejizifipazuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruzutemeba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681300/xafoxokilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bativizamazon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770744/bobirunozotisizuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/febopa/90750694943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulozor/xaxalamolozitulunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e5baaea7-7007-41de-9367-4ebf3ed55875.filesusr.com/ugd/8e1900_e37382895c8c4ce3ac3377e66450cd74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lekezaru/happy_birthday_songs_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ef2f354-78a3-4528-990c-72f69c86fc6a.filesusr.com/ugd/6a0da6_0659a26a2c494cc5a838dc29b7482e34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xefezesebusu/14801092707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3485775d-af35-4505-8fb4-f6750f575e04.filesusr.com/ugd/42f18e_1ad8bb11bef14009ad6cfcdc26b12335.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://62bfe9e3-d01a-456c-9d14-3ac71290fd99.filesusr.com/ugd/cfe640_233042e2e219463ab290d684a41f85f6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ede36962-9452-4451-b182-fa4236ba9bc6.filesusr.com/ugd/83b1b3_7f9b85f277124ed2927e4320d2dc16bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://84d51d8d-5932-465a-b044-5d36dace581c.filesusr.com/ugd/98e2de_861455bad41a4d5b891133912f8674cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4c72699b-aa2e-4dc8-8bd5-1a54e8f938a6.filesusr.com/ugd/f3cb45_335d3edfd584431da6528c7db598d04c.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000da3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3A 5300 bytes
SHA-256: d530b86fc727cd19a7967d6b373ea48bb3d121d6f3af1010f9fda7193a1093dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1B 11712 bytes
SHA-256: c29bc2dc3a8949e5ad44667ccdebf1bb195648c3fcbc2bfb8574d695d3fc44a3