Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4b79f4ada919eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-04-27 15:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e79dcb268be912fdd4a3139c2081d381 SHA-1: e3da53f028aa430d320db452d79517270a65f652 SHA-256: f4b79f4ada919eecad36d82f6f9060d4b8785396c1be25128095b0f22148c669
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, and specifically impersonates the brand 'Apple' to phish for credentials. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

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://wevetajapejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636724/2676666.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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=why+won%2527t+my+samsung+tv+stay+connected+to+the+internet PDF link annotation
    • https://wevetajapejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636724/2676666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pudorexejuvaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455832/08a9180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagavupotiwek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813998/milunavifixopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xofebuledat.scienceontheweb.net/texawuvanuvalaregapiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muxavitegujun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637584/7575394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tizelizenofus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740364/xotusowogofiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rejurikin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070637/sibumixiloz_merugo_pebexonimasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizutiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134478998/pegoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kutowovazamil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362820/vumavipubopisu-zamuwomojaseda-tolusadib-lepixotiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://96a9e3af-f0c3-4048-9e6c-0ad8da3c6018.filesusr.com/ugd/15d534_7d032becbc624e819ba828a08dd8d9f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kubomefewofumim.atwebpages.com/gokugadosibanuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ff4d9611-e7ea-45f2-85d3-f0b464ef817f.filesusr.com/ugd/48f461_ef7067678f4a4484a51a6a711a02d800.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dab7fb03-f2af-4a8e-9cb9-31de623bedb3.filesusr.com/ugd/58b596_1cd5ea178d7b4506b8c3e9baf46ca1d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jopiwutipav.epizy.com/tabozomazuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://97783159-ced7-426e-9fbd-60d2bb3342fb.filesusr.com/ugd/00058f_760c5e8415d14e44979918307814902d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d115d978-d96a-40c8-9764-5d959708fc35.filesusr.com/ugd/436160_0b365497891d4b11bb38fad1a26adade.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://680e7e7f-99bb-4309-8a01-ecc910dc7690.filesusr.com/ugd/717a42_e0d85588f080439799e9d9d89f788856.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8c17aa34-c454-4d6c-a218-8929c845e329.filesusr.com/ugd/808cd0_2021f193b01b4a099b254316de9c7c32.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be8414c4-f2d5-40c6-b8a8-1a5561a1dac7.filesusr.com/ugd/a452ea_d5e3bd0157a4407c854cba4478d50bef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gikunipif.epizy.com/14176021479.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_off0000e58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58B 5624 bytes
SHA-256: d681ec517fcb8ecb518c938d5ea93961b7ea81a512c50c8d84952850db249e0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 11060 bytes
SHA-256: da0b04b25cb69354f77e09a48348d7cf171d13bfde04babd738bbfcbb3f332b7