Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d289c28dcb2c66ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-06 06:57:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b8606c51a602ecc49a4891d455365617 SHA-1: d606751ef9b43714b6113ee0dbf8b4b18b21d512 SHA-256: d289c28dcb2c66ecfad2ec83bc54d12f5f107c3e03e37a52be3c007d4cc80e1e
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into believing there are changes to payment instructions, a common social engineering tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or redirection attack.

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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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://druttle.ru/wix?keyword=supersu+apk+chainfire PDF link annotation
    • http://bestcreditcheck.info/free_grammar_coloring_sheets_middle_schoolq0ji3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taher-tcac.com/standard_horizon_hx870e_e2oar4g4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakuxijewimafud.22web.org/boom_truck_daily_inspection_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menafemudiwifog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813668/fetoxepejipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366031/normal_5fcdd52497aab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rifitozimolumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134667823/6643973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctuxuu.com/hyperdimension_neptunia_episode_10ezdp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verefatodefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134722939/2206444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degusatujetuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813325/sorofunazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369343/normal_5fdbbd764f032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuzuloluxeguvox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874948/misurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408586/normal_601123a06a27e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e6676b24-921d-4f57-8fca-beda98688f3c.filesusr.com/ugd/144d27_a48b0c64e6d84a72aeeba48bdd79c033.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falejogajir/ponun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5862e4ea-63a6-4c92-af93-e06d02d1a664.filesusr.com/ugd/eaa371_b28e9d9d16ad4095b12e1b28fa8b5c5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://waxaravibew.epizy.com/bosch_500_series_dishwasher_for_sale_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muvojugejoxip/how_to_initiate_legal_proceedings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liwara/dazuwulitaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9cf93ecd-64ee-4ad6-afcc-f350577a7522.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_9b3d298799044eb5ac47d8adb30f742e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zalolod.epizy.com/64891737188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://665985ba-8e9f-4173-b993-17a3090d61d7.filesusr.com/ugd/08421c_be0d85c9ab954fcb9dfe0a93867a3373.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_off0000fa36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA36 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 310d2543eddeb7c84d4ef21a2fbe5a9a0e7684bfed1b2c7567c52555c27cb298
font_01_sfnt_off00010c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C05 10808 bytes
SHA-256: c500a64a765f7da6bcf1a80b53eba7ffb2c0a35f875568d4dd20d043978cbf2a