Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d236880aef7e53b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 13:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4998f636549f040deb03bff537cdeff3 SHA-1: d41d40e85089504f67c54d92e013bf554fcfa4f3 SHA-256: 4d236880aef7e53b06f013e2f3959c3f271c1e0cb1738375184d9a89f861aa2c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566 Phishing

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing attempt. The heuristics indicate it impersonates Facebook and directs users to a link farm hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites, aiming to steal credentials. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL analysis and heuristic firings strongly suggest a credential phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=messenger+with+phone+number+only.
  • 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 http://aa-nusd.jp/14559583900.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/73943754324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ba4a5a454aa9300325f84a01269117/32874313433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e2f6eccfbd041e61347bf330c25114b/59127870445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/mojajitusanetijegubane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc8gjmphcsd4m1iovc1hh5itf2/niruxozesixavalavevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/97802111229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090114201773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384f91312e3---35372201830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/buvozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/51027779982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/292375383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210907225027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6d4f64894---84179755760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mjrspot.com/fckimages/file/5322525591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/bixevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed60162d77---rinaripewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/kabezajilofitipezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4ba1b89cf---88494017197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59002879949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a041a8105e---64764739376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodecoder.com/userfiles/file/tekuforinasuwunufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381dabf2246---36048603552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/bijifibeduviluzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=messenger+with+phone+number+onlyPDF link annotation
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF04 10968 bytes
SHA-256: cce8d7f8fe3df6096552692f4946c343f6e62339e648eab03148808e5aba680d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF822 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11034 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 3750cfe50b848c8bf8c7c93d927e0eb4e4097c95d9b23daa58b821cba3937f65