Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50e6467d1113210a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 02b446524e13d02bbbad5815e842de8f SHA-1: d5c5d08d60299a93d7a32e774394365be7642424 SHA-256: 50e6467d1113210a5225ef2bfdcb2b0124a7aed71986ceba5a4f83edf669e0cf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Internal Spearphishing

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and heuristics indicate it is a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure for Apple. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=picture+description+worksheet+for+grade+1.
  • 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://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/75756122426.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081aa4e015cb---15260113372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c589c6b5c---95723244816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soncongnghiepjotun.com/media/ftp/file/dujorusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/zofudopejiwoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/27047893716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52168735faa49dca54a0ba37a38c19c/nepaxanuledujokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac672a7b4e3---45534519305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/93328623719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/mojudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebc1c11ba3002be94ffabf947b7f619/fivatekadopagedozeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43602127357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/78298993901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759be09ef79---77765150388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/kiwopasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/kitozozevemobatewibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/65234339046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazevosevugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/19113252509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/lovivelobiseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210723_020842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/67124357858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42f077b489---gejivatoronimora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03d9ce6cf8f47e8b6d352612385a73d5/muravikezuvasejeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c88f7eec81---kesiwezumenokexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.superior-inkjet.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romanepibiwujiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=picture+description+worksheet+for+grade+1PDF 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_off0000d2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D4 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 0eef98ab50c4a7a76d4b288ac8635159cdb641c1d50a7570ca47efddd2064097
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE2 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6512be7abfd1bcee8f06327488da8b0c57104a273fff48c6a921b3f28ea981
font_02_sfnt_off0001197b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1