Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 137c8a39b04adff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d9d3dab636c754c05e2f85042d8c8f71 SHA-1: 6eb0e67473eb78180950c9aeae0eff5238add08d SHA-256: 137c8a39b04adff0273e4e48a3d1d513d940627d5644b040c9022e831e916965
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Internal Spearphishing T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier flagged it with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it's a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Facebook. The document contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, directing users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high 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: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gramfree+net+reviews.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0tasq2v7gvppq04hp1esof003/1310436677.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/72380754283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843fdbb1b3b---dewodofamowapexizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe4931d63cb964225d59bc3be51795c/28914712817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d95fce87de---31426442634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2377ec8027---16773335579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/74206302152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/67802465822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/44504965760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a24ab80c1---durovenibofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c8b4209a63088e82776bdde22151fd/46313283526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf02b5b7fc6ab7d2a40e1d654500f11/74686320315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72c0009c16---modizoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/26330983767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/8226014230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqv97u52beog90nomm83j1fqqo/84217160258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iho363ncgqbsoubmpf090rv67r/rosapabuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/gumuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/tiwuwiwavugogubavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/wuterunowimegutokivagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9pr8977ksp7c2kh66o6dnrqap/nizifituvatobujina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leakefamilyreunion.com/clients/63964/File/32137850411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/kebawusuwujikusopuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gramfree+net+reviewsPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/44881155980.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f06f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10886 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 09a40deba402e19fcd0800fd09f385f6f357116e74d5e02ef65fa7140645a506
font_02_sfnt_off0001201f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201F 16744 bytes
SHA-256: a388b102889a81f1b1fff3060863e1446072f29db05a438fa7079c0e0d7ffbe0
font_03_sfnt_off00014b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B59 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516