Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5aae44dee4823c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-03-07 22:18:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 15c4b94c151a5944d76b7210c0dc3cc5 SHA-1: bef13b944f4ad5d49c149beaa86072b975262a21 SHA-256: d5aae44dee4823c3b3b3254204de7bdc4e17ec79fba07600171e835cac189229
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to obscure the final destination of the credential phishing lure impersonating Spotify. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the presence of numerous SEO-optimized links points to a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://milelujip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861654/kowerewesamapiribaxi.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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+construct+an+acute+scalene+triangle PDF link annotation
    • https://milelujip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861654/kowerewesamapiribaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sekelenogake.getenjoyment.net/91904745895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mijagipiked.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524971/lozamozobev_webabeva_bejojeranizagi_julebefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejukoturig.medianewsonline.com/can_i_use_all_purpose_flour_to_make_bread_in_my_bread_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koprovk.xyz/solefisujojimajigetycrty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasitonedilegu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135301248/d9ac8d6c9e3dd56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedutigumufezeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134659425/gusoxiwuwozolewifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instapriz365.online/mapa_conceptual_de_los_conceptos_bsicos_de_la_estadstica63k1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linavaluviriv.getenjoyment.net/hisense_portable_air_conditioner_remote_control.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupedokan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607930/7ece9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://radiviwix.onlinewebshop.net/84546457311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futakanawus.onlinewebshop.net/solid_state_chemistry_and_its_applications_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://80172413-d145-4b71-b7cf-4a007d76ad29.filesusr.com/ugd/cacfd7_28643e4dd6e4432bb8052a6f23c6d8d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pevogikuxupeja.onlinewebshop.net/hp_stream_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palelezugob.onlinewebshop.net/70136758929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://23751d96-d7b3-42ca-b8ca-e459b671ea95.filesusr.com/ugd/7de994_004f827862d540a0aa41345bc388c887.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://efed9c07-4553-4484-a419-1b844d271aeb.filesusr.com/ugd/6f475a_4bb2e81da53547cfa72de88756627ee2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2c8134a4-d865-4da1-8961-c755d7242105.filesusr.com/ugd/6dcf04_cbaf887100bb42e3a4442cddc6c7ba48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8eeb1f0a-0cdd-4c66-98a4-83777b49fb54.filesusr.com/ugd/64f9d2_fa4266d53d2d41f095586c7142177422.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_off0000e9e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E7 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 44f0becb554b0daac5465388015b649ee031f3adb955ab4ab7be4c9f1105e87e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB19 10268 bytes
SHA-256: f151aba1a1759f62100fb9fc552a968912c1239c13c4d9681aaad62d497cdd0d