Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1252f4df92ec8dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-11 04:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 9783a55fda2db8ebfa3921641e3d63f2 SHA-1: 6ddae392abaa0ed1ddc89e0fcb88bac7ed47fc99 SHA-256: a1252f4df92ec8ddfb7d2a5afe536844bf82cd82823e4643c3e513eff6082608
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a lure related to "Kaps exam sample questions and answers pdf" and impersonates Microsoft to encourage users to click on a link. This link leads to a phishing site hosted on `medvor.ru`, which is not associated with Microsoft. The presence of multiple links to compromised or disposable hosting sites further indicates malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and heuristics strongly suggest a credential phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kaps+exam+sample+questions+and+answers+pdf.
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kaps+exam+sample+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/tufugopupujevifagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd31c4b87f---konazijuxipubutapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1q7gtjkb2s208qgeefhhsrnt4/fevomubixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/99064516475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/35960489972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4e8e2110e584b33e1a9271159b5b1d/7117261707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/fixujerira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540eb5bbfbcbe2884c4c1b537dc096de/9945582583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608681e553d80---57466023208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be6e6da392---79797119062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d47ea96f8---88052564495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c5555ec24---86826898432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/55799543868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7f018eda3---23844186970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/13411563770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE68 1572 bytes
SHA-256: d5d49a807764148dbc67d6eca26374f7d919483ed4a9ca81873178d4ac8c9a27
font_01_sfnt_off0001066b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1066B 5440 bytes
SHA-256: e4946dcbadec438e8555ce2d35ced11a19ea09301085a17d2356fcd8875f4c9f
font_02_sfnt_off000118ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EF 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 08bfe61879c15414466abb428cc916603d158567bf34a733d64a6508f619f4c9