Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5011d2191b99d101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-05-30 01:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 1fa6fa88279ad0673e2267a058733d4c SHA-1: d8d635eb7ef7e1b893f8374dbb76483ea05efd57 SHA-256: 5011d2191b99d10121aed0faef7dee55b5651e875a1f66d9c1ecd13403d6390f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and exhibits characteristics of brand-impersonation credential phishing, specifically impersonating UPS. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The primary lure appears to be the link associated with the 'Last stand union city hacked unblocked key hacks' text, which redirects through feedproxy.google.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=last+stand+union+city+hacked+unblocked+key+hacks.
  • 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://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c30d9bff7---kidetusonejanufovibozir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098421253c83---zapikinopeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9217250d92fce9b0bc9a385e146ecb0a/7455143187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/518022d2d530195bf73cce55a7a405de/36257078149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lck24uosql8esdgo496d5j90d/29965166692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffaa80cb56fbb475c0b696bfe43bad1/tujejuduruxukabitimozoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u28rccpjoi6f818ltpvdcq23nu/86352998788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggco93i23q1v7ijjv5pjnbs3qa/sapesoliwezenanabuliteger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608188ceb86a5---datukuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb7b784529---wavoture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/wexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609013bcdaff1---sodimagimewixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081dc7865c7d---81654903644.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=last+stand+union+city+hacked+unblocked+key+hacksPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC9 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 4f225cf5cb06ae774244c378ab84c038864ebeb488bd4263458e9a02f0e84d3d
font_01_sfnt_off00014df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DF7 11924 bytes
SHA-256: a2580a4e55550c08e0d67accd4ac8d5b32215b05268cd98e3efe2fe1f65b71bb
font_02_sfnt_off00017656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17656 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3