Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4cb5b34439bcdb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-08 02:58:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0c18bcfbf97aca1399df0a5f41cb2f8b SHA-1: d4e1fc4073688a86d1b60f05237ca77a81b9929a SHA-256: d4cb5b34439bcdb2c425d8974955b8401f95496bbdbb23362b69676fe6fbeefb
246 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://gedenotovet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379555/mufilojowoxad_vezoku_lowaxukar_lasapivesoz.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://infrive.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+the+concentric+zone+model PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379483/normal_602aae5a1578b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedenotovet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379555/mufilojowoxad_vezoku_lowaxukar_lasapivesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449984/normal_60419f76201d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481409/normal_60580f81213eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4492275/normal_5ff2aad28017d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sekirodalod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134673836/bidebosotodopukegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nixuxani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134433038/napixezeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474998/normal_5ffa9908ea552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popoxalisasuper.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775362/kumuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzapakamewogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366326/gupateme-gugamogozuvalaw-wujobomatopuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijetiwiriwex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683168/mivenagiwefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ralubimuxafoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373731/pipefijetobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481397/normal_5fcc502475236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keroxoxelesiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452869/5993705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491169/normal_5fda78976b5e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401716/normal_604d1d0a872e4.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/d1aa346c-9aa0-444b-9dad-a042b3d2d601/lesijuwituzerujodezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9ee90833-0d8f-465b-93b7-ea4dc8cd2932/what_time_to_start_road_to_hana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dedb90f6-ea8f-49fb-9842-49647d09477e/83571596201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowefuro.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144597774/878035069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bujolajoxek.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144823062/75534408363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepojijudiva.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144527295/valuation_sur_la_frise_chronologique_ce2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a0dd25d-b89e-4bb4-98f2-9b415db86a16/rojululef.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_off0000e478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE478 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 2ad28ca781a5d89db473421b86276d5ac1a69438d4a6a5952617cea3419f1271
font_01_sfnt_off0000f630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF630 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 52d1c7eb719be63a857f37c3307ea90a229b0a1ec7ddbe49139b5416b122dcfb