Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1c1c4ddec9ae4d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-06-09 10:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: da98dc68713a31985d818d349e9e7f66 SHA-1: b6c13f7b0e9fc0ebdd85aeffaac59709f53aada6 SHA-256: d1c1c4ddec9ae4d1aa0673a96fe5c7c3ac58daf9e39d85104c253a0d74ccbccc
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure and a link farm. It impersonates Microsoft, includes a call-to-action button, and hosts numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 8

  • 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://retedavaliloxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135393755/lubixunejo.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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nomylo.ru/pbw?utm_term=msa+bypass+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://retedavaliloxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135393755/lubixunejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pokenavij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892290/fenozasabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426819/normal_60623203f0b80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodesagetulisuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902864/lupakumidaj-paxit-gusovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483354/normal_6044615e7c472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409413/normal_5fd68a5cf04e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369520/normal_602876d376443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483104/normal_5ffecdf10203c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428341/normal_60bf7a6392900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416299/normal_60463b032f84d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369508/normal_5fc9f23f3b35f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribuborufexegax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507127/3944147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491445/normal_5fc56effb5394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxozeke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322415/nikovewukima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426819/normal_5fd91d95d5ece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fevebelok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012800/23967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485946/normal_5fcfe677cc733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokejivig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322053/85fbb3d312de7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443594/normal_5fcae4f5cb5e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464068/normal_60635490e7551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc6a740d-c32f-4b01-b6de-98b55a8ebf89/fefukubiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9d9620d-dade-4cc1-8c8d-c148f0990512/what_is_slow_cook_on_samsung_oven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0348f2bd-b0ad-40d9-aaa5-bf2897af093b/gojosolebofipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f5ee3d8-af27-474b-91bf-f2a42c410c93/in_christ_alone_chords_key_of_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b00a6cbe-158a-43c2-8761-5c99bf79ac65/80832489039.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDA 4320 bytes
SHA-256: d48c6229a14727de640bb484026121e3bdd952bd2d2bcc3f8f4b911a1ab838ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED77 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 981557f5e694dc8a4db1b06d6717a0f552dd6ea65000bc418ce8b21363f05c49
font_02_sfnt_off00011176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11176 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34