Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9db60504d0a3681…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-02-09 11:59:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 30ea5635e24183b2abeae1fc265d3eac SHA-1: 2bcd3c1953559ece0f89a0378655341bbf4e0bfa SHA-256: f9db60504d0a368162ca4d7d06e14b08ee2f5182a3d45c6ba11f9e5ecf611259
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The heuristics indicate a critical finding of brand-impersonation credential phishing, specifically targeting PayPal, and a malicious redirector link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely to steal credentials.

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://degugelusejife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/4df2b34c24.pdf.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yafferge.ru/aws?utm_term=boohooman+contact+form In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/retagigimusa/bY9aprX/all_secret_animals_in_crossy_road.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457876/normal_5ffc4be3eac9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vogoxaginoje/ii0icrs/open_kitchen_family_room_house_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mugapowejog/eigyIHz/facebook_live_local_news_san_diego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401517/normal_5ff27cdb60595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degugelusejife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/4df2b34c24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorajakura/jjgh0EK/86223254178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegovowazuravas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398401/9455643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jimikafede/jZzggKG/13665635362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503692/normal_6018fa11cc569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pesuxitum/Wieha2W/nidinememoxumajawunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482858/normal_5fd7fb2de7600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zipuboxovasabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483293/423619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367308/normal_600ea6dd7acf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4472186/normal_5ff48ba6aa870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mokabawimav/iop9Zii/50213938106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419206/normal_5fe420b85b384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosulabemolajeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871730/a676704dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489848/normal_5fdae9a7cdafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE0 4584 bytes
SHA-256: 874400cdf56b85d110a59ebe0972fce40422f7149e63cef98e2f6ffc5dd9a2dc
font_01_sfnt_off00012e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2D 11732 bytes
SHA-256: 2f743c3828c61a77d6e2574f1524c347b2a88f9d8cd04ee8f2ddd8147fea26e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15619 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2