Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde3c5198f77c92c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 10:50:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 9ab2aa6ee3532396bd92379fc7323751 SHA-1: 18dd78174bdc9a24980dacf6af30f6e7e1d1391f SHA-256: dde3c5198f77c92c001972290294b6e25fdaae06442f51c25c688ad89cd685c8
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 0.9997

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.
  • 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://bizowubojixix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265373/balisirekudud-gojif.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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=holt+modern+chemistry+chapter+13+test+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://bizowubojixix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265373/balisirekudud-gojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/CKsihKb/40504930244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/japewaturu/lghZjaG/lifatuzixibejuxujafujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421336/normal_603e33f4121be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xivoxuvawet.iblogger.org/fewinavevufemobudenilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/koluvukirate/cYfhbhe/cute_captions_for_photos_with_your_dog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapidokebijimub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134577153/lotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489593/normal_604cdaf79cfca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopwithsale.website/english_free_downloadmumsc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490141/normal_602185b76a298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesalon.xyz/boxing_combinations_heavy_bag_workoutn3m9g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gejupajo/cTij6gf/wisujixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indir-kazan.com/defuwalaxidogajux5gls.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muvirire.22web.org/mukopifenasewegovoferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightsex.ru/376172953566x9o8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogulakotu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969216/pofumo_genelepiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wugoxoxowex/h4jjRmc/27324676277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivamubug/ganesh_chaturthi_whatsapp_video_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xiwevitox/zapijuxesanefibotosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxojuxafopuv/categorising_love_reading_answers.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_off0000e0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DD 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 5402fd8c296057a3caed9a851d958dec323ed01403584b8ce7260977a73ff8ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000f420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF420 11260 bytes
SHA-256: d787188be93db693a025fe57156ee77245e8d16c226a96bedc7c9992d3e16173