Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5c6bad4c1dd6fe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-29 21:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f46c578157f1516edc5dd23dc9748179 SHA-1: dd570ecaddc1628a8cb8c2fd653c83483084319a SHA-256: d5c6bad4c1dd6fe7ee373be42a2bcfaf4c66c01d01e49c5310720878cc63c76b
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is identified as a credential phishing lure impersonating Yahoo. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to credential harvesting.

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://vowebaxuzifov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/matitifenemobul.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://baarspo.ru/123?utm_term=homophobic+meaning+yahoo+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://vowebaxuzifov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/matitifenemobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473642/normal_5fe106045499d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezasitize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135303973/c0b57fec7ab1cad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benosetib.iblogger.org/kivabinorigusavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412379/normal_6035a8eaddee3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojirutewum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134622564/jebifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitukuruzatag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346955/giximixibamo_tekudesim_pepezubukugima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pudosibax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135964381/1051115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478923/normal_6030d2e392ba0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410030/normal_603f479533d8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413587/normal_603494fe95a88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5ec50ee2-6c76-415b-b731-82d7de26534b.filesusr.com/ugd/826e74_ebe3c3b4dde847909dc41652b5738c75.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/967ae65f-5456-4246-b2e4-dac6d58c03f9/95358393164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popedufi.epizy.com/89334229225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://665985ba-8e9f-4173-b993-17a3090d61d7.filesusr.com/ugd/08421c_0e91768dc37a45fe9575a0933bf145a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wepinipinalojud.epizy.com/95393551229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://171e2b11-24ea-4535-acac-f971ec821c4b.filesusr.com/ugd/a07927_c75d1df6581343e184321db2f98492d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f459ab6e-ac57-43ce-b83a-1524846427e4.filesusr.com/ugd/938c70_82035f77fccd4c1f9ecb3d8328f67862.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://db532842-334f-4efb-8993-e67ec8f20ff5.filesusr.com/ugd/bc5be3_94b71ea980694a03853b0ce8e082f72c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a18e4a1-e8ed-4c1e-83f5-6835ae4cedc9/nagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4cb3dfdb-a1a4-4bfd-af1c-80dac3213c3f/how_to_put_batteries_in_polaroid_300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijoxiwakofavoj.epizy.com/lg_bh5140s_remote_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://70fbc5f3-53e4-4072-9ff7-a5862d19847b.filesusr.com/ugd/bb3bf9_4d0ebd80cad24c77b05adf98cd3c0179.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_off0000f1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D3 5608 bytes
SHA-256: cc2a263242cd9f24e3543c311b379362da3e273bb6f4545d98a4f384f72c40c5
font_01_sfnt_off000104ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CE 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 89e2b14141029f399ef1c9a594add764a797e17fc0edf34ce90b3056209bb8db