Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfeed9f1540309e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-03-14 22:28:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: e386b5ede2d0ccdab234934fe8d3b249 SHA-1: 5c27e4cb6bded8c3f626ca20aefc9983fc475c06 SHA-256: dfeed9f1540309e4733da9315ef50469a5d72f4b91a867be821c77fd1f88814d
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing campaign. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into believing there are new or changed payment instructions, a common tactic in business email compromise scams. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this PDF.

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://lozipotod.ru/wix?keyword=scarlet+clicks+earning PDF link annotation
    • https://bizitaninajoki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316521/620dae0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it50discount.pro/10839777572nqbur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peruvapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813059/53d186af552b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italysummer.fun/abiude_lavar_roupa0svrl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yewes.space/246439901910mg3w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unreguezff.rest/frm_mock_exam_2020vdo6z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jojapunopumaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482926/favojiz_silewuwafup_lezevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulimogub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134312020/1032736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christinaanddavid2019.com/minecraft_earth_release_date_uaeux0qu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonorakukipi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134721252/ropedebasikemopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boxoxezerutevok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317212/4178045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f4b9ed98-44c1-44e6-9966-d9817cd43de7.filesusr.com/ugd/9ced5d_e0c5177355ad4c7ab8bd016abcf4faea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20440283-ec85-47d4-a138-0ceaf29b88ea/vidas_secas_livro_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98b3ec82-5580-4901-9cb5-d08ff64b40d9/13652312905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50a4831e-9310-40dd-b155-b7e11122f5a9/safoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e9155d39-0f7d-4366-9ee8-34e17fe3d773.filesusr.com/ugd/9e05b8_4e05da5204134c818db9e95cd1292c80.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0e9c393c-9feb-4465-ae9d-4486bea7a644.filesusr.com/ugd/4b68be_a45942cde1f5416c82767992e17ea0df.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/41b45847-b5a5-456f-811e-54751bd84cf5/osha_10_construction_training_course.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dc383e6d-b7a3-4e67-a88a-227fa542b6c3.filesusr.com/ugd/72b0e7_64baaa64bbc84b4d9659ee75ed0b4383.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77cd6773-f20c-40ab-ab8e-9b2f52428b9e/xalebedivili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb413987-6e77-4bf1-aaa6-e97eb550fbee.filesusr.com/ugd/108936_b09565d48d314a059e3e1b919a24cb4e.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_off0000e695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE695 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 86ae73ca5268b0b31c147715717cb380b11ad3e14ba94aff40d9a4020c224d75
font_01_sfnt_off0000f81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81B 11152 bytes
SHA-256: f65d6b0fa147945306c8cacda1510e9a8b663192f8f13133551b831c7c4472e9