Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1b53597b4540c19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-01 15:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fdbe51e25bf798b279ffc989da4f9d39 SHA-1: 38a9f61bb901ed5a41162b80ef0695e69cf6b7d9 SHA-256: d1b53597b4540c19e05e680708de3fe80c82f5f7da65409dfc1a2a3ce6fcfa17
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one specifically impersonates Apple to lure users to a redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely credential phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://rezomiwutamanap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362688/paropubab.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://irlanc.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+a+text+mail.subscriber PDF link annotation
    • https://rezomiwutamanap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362688/paropubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417222/normal_600c9efe1feb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495393/normal_604b668c128c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kikeletiwemuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134671512/fd84a948a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447646/normal_6012116cd1598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwibafufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774969/3062034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukukadusese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666137/9834646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxakowov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704390/3f39c52d7d47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374364/normal_60343e3d9d1b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizusufake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134646877/xiwaxadeviju_mowukuti_jibemaxagow_fujose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofakixejiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265497/ketup_pixevosaxoj_nabowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366035/normal_60618c0589b80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://modagifamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135341464/silafoneduguvofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafemiperufukoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379503/litumaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimedugomo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740195/6265582.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/dee21dd1-df40-40b7-8f41-b9b32712ca14/how_to_change_the_battery_in_a_timex_expedition_indiglo_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4756e4a6-a005-47b2-a550-212b9b634f97/colley_vector_calculus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ded28d25-3de2-40aa-bea6-7f7b2cd9946c/wildgame_innovations_deer_feeder_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3798a686-a8e3-4c6e-abaa-9fd273c277cb/gijupunajujaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5301a7dd-44e6-4f46-b208-d6addc813fa1/how_to_make_a_banana_smoothie_without_yogurt_or_honey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fe39b93-a74b-473b-b5bd-66271c36d82c/us_army_reserve_retirement_pay_scale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbd67cd2-0c03-4c58-97ff-4f59d46fabd4/dakebasenomedilawazaz.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_off0000f875.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF875 5292 bytes
SHA-256: e36d24f9a21c33fea9a6ddaae1769658d56758b3f45371357377edbe6140dbc8
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5E 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 99e851ed1df04c3e88fb60a01babba136bbdfd27016732648b4a51af2b6c3a32