Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94f480d8148707ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0a31e4fd1a22b58757411daeceace852 SHA-1: e3617399d416c75be9de1e7e639f10d1f36f8bdc SHA-256: 94f480d8148707ea5fc913f265e5e312104537a1f73a23306def3c98fe6ff0d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest a lure related to accessing an iPhone with a forgotten passcode, likely a phishing attempt to steal credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+access+iphone+forgot+passcode PDF link annotation
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/jejupavamosesuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/porex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/bokupinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/81617485608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708ef153b8a---52779361090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsbluebirds1967.com/clients/b/b5/b592d679e9980e62d9d56be1bfb8b6b6/File/88885561021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/lawajefilonenaneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/varinaziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/nakifozoxakaxibiwuvowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/17690411146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zululag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d652cd5cdb424093cb3abb97c2fa59/xebofunoxuduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/25976485684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/36768000085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/16760213021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1293929947---mirimulipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/rewemuriwedufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipalikalavodaraliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/86735385514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/54643040495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/31321608108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/furuguleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ici16kug7005lnk2pgp6ih5c7/36022256077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270337fcfb51faebe8314756d79798ee/levunexojimexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/kimowepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/wuvikemutorariduzomobiba.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_off0000da36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF248 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 624d70865a0870bf78dcbae05dc90cabb347614f70836be2a00c9ea7f9389f2e
font_02_sfnt_off00011de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE0 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 77f11fe98316c5ec6cda019c76dca2e80fad9403b4eeec85c99771e9f4887bef