Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdec453e54b8bdd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-03-16 20:36:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bdf7f62cd2925815a789bdff5d66e9b3 SHA-1: e440ac28331f5f8b66b5aa977076d13bcdef5d77 SHA-256: fdec453e54b8bdd568a4aa9b190d36b24ece953317523171e4bb07879617ee7c
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing campaign, impersonating the brand 'Costco'. It contains a mass external link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to a phishing page. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to harvest user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nulumekut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373747/nuxefuridopona-sejenolakaz-fovexapes-veveletisa.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://golowaki.ru/123?utm_term=workers+compensation+benefits+guide+april+2018 PDF link annotation
    • http://lenudes.com/775404911335v3a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazhivy.net/622591228951fiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulumekut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373747/nuxefuridopona-sejenolakaz-fovexapes-veveletisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxobadukiwad.22web.org/59209426134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotomogef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134760479/2b65ab75c9eb9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://invitesistem.ru/free_financial_spreadsheet_excelhxdg9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gejiraje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/ferol_vevuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaginugopaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310825/fozutod_revavirikijev_pewijagajomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipidabivipili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340994/notomabukive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limons.space/12845952218hqqnw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lazerepil.site/jukudajobefosipop9a8s4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://66c7139a-03c0-45fe-98d3-e817d1e01442.filesusr.com/ugd/de2db5_00f91ce383634d8a862e5ee239b6de8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/308db04c-7fae-4820-b8e6-50cc00e51233/troy_bilt_tb220_carburetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naxovexewudo.epizy.com/pdf_to_word_converter_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_19db0decc31b423f9fea0618db505d36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_d7e0c15d271b487fa78fb17986d72cd8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://butaxogusevi.epizy.com/96553973918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowavizoviwu.epizy.com/yesterday_once_more_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c095063-5534-4129-8afd-fb7c59191e03/jabugige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5693e770-ff71-44c7-828a-5a2b5258fec3/nonatipazarisirigaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ded05c8b-f0d8-42bc-a64b-daa0b63394ca.filesusr.com/ugd/99afdc_6dd12301f0d04e2388f194412f6fc786.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71b2e02a-d180-4453-948c-c1a8f630a0ad/dapupiboves.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_off0000ffab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAB 6212 bytes
SHA-256: b4c664623b2456b84eeeab770a33d803f125f2711df3ffb57b46396f38a74715
font_01_sfnt_off000114c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C6 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 7c02f5b7ecf5dd6067a4b6e419723ca0837b22e53ba906eb85fd99269ffffd35