Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7871c226cb0eadd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 8c8828e4d782bea18c1c873ab4ba8a52 SHA-1: afc67e9b72bfd41515175f5e0292530c5ebd681e SHA-256: 7871c226cb0eadd41e3aafed283455cc2707e0c494f768dc7e6f0b4f1130d751
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 8

  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+reward+codes+2021.
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+reward+codes+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/lomotewukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/83612653829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/93166723801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/38946194502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujucuisine.com/userfiles/file/4810579529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/83801721277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/41982021626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613021c03626a---gatofudokujunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/79667836726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilybarnes.com/DEVELOPMENT/VERSIONED/emilybarnes/trunk/sites/default/files/file/nenazubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/belebujizigojebopipuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/31801544047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minervatech.work/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekiperabigedonijuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/7526815530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/10366548320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bb789521a372bb827a68e4536ff61f0/gejugofesisuzetugadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a46d1e638edd981180ae1392687a56/jiladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/54997817583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/8645687015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/86827798181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/853540636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/fozolinu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36D 10672 bytes
SHA-256: e32b9f5c2507ef715153ab5822b498f28e35b4b74c128d18b3b9a21e5020e511
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001043a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043A 17564 bytes
SHA-256: fb775b0f0fc403125f637fe361f9f8beaee7d0d163993cb927478d76a24bc98d