Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd857e7a564fc869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 17:05:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 48fe15ec140984e63405aa2ec23137ca SHA-1: 5032d699b2af189121669a2fa4f44741b828e27b SHA-256: fd857e7a564fc8696a48e0c34664c3de1c6bed8bca14c36b44f06e546a93180d
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including brand impersonation for credential phishing and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document contains numerous external links, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and phishing lures points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lukawonudos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135320707/bofefejugivisuviro.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://drafthe.ru/pbw?utm_term=birthday+song+with+name+and+photo+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4484376/normal_5fcde3a21c142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lukawonudos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135320707/bofefejugivisuviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462726/normal_6061163a62a7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454304/normal_5fcc7526d3b75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380083/normal_605d4b7e57e49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fagedanagaga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876409/6d303e2443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485576/normal_6005ebf16de9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xupubiwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339906/zotuwemumebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxitodek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637279/d46e482b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447251/normal_5fe4060410d64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469378/normal_5fd98979dbb33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4501037/normal_60b0f3f2d010c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481510/normal_60545b3c7792d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494891/normal_601718a42ae18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374986/normal_60666920700f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470014/normal_60296efc303ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giburonolunege.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/32283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459470/normal_60c01c09bc830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373509/normal_5fe2afa2a4fb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366367/normal_60154957c8809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474231/normal_5fef3a1ba832c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9774a867-9d7a-435c-a3b1-5c67aa9ffab3/wojevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7a396a5-dc16-4f04-8997-38e673454371/59763049665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfae3772-e1cc-49f1-8664-18704e0bb14f/94188110151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/875c844d-6408-4f8e-8aed-3c591523c2f2/pediwasuza.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_off0000e2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B1 5700 bytes
SHA-256: b49dc46bc8bdd3dc819f060f4c3d88b740228534a0b46c2b28d02ae501636257
font_01_sfnt_off0000f60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60C 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1da523806b3edfa75d100df543eddb49ef1b34d4d2c5dccdf18226af4107af