Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0eb9519d169f6d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 10:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 603e8752f7ae5d52ec70f179221e8dce SHA-1: caaa9081c516330f6c79c12da32e91751bc7654d SHA-256: c0eb9519d169f6d3d251c8daf3ffb497e3074ccac20d3681aac2a75c8e3b4914
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and a machine learning model indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' heuristic specifically identifies it as a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure, with the call-to-action link host not matching the impersonated brand. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+kfc+franchise+owners+make.
  • 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://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/ritisideriguro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il258mqihmgc195hec7ivvqju4/98443166813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7042a004fd8c36ce06df4d58ffdb9cb1/24717663028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/relit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ab4310a92---64111998324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/zujadesolelelovasevamefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xotigavexugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/defidomafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/44680413327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/jesovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/62917136457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/47185786448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/54894550155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210610_97A7435C8DDEA276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/tazapagisixisagezipuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/sagesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f323970a15262e6d9f9d2eedd1f8d758/bumoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/tisovute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pjf98nhb8un4pu2ds3vhtfo6e/moxutebubedibekifobuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96967756881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mvk35fnmuk1nplujgbrs6cij5/fatulunasefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/80606137726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/21238893261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951c6c915c8---16573019064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/lomufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+kfc+franchise+owners+makePDF 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_off00011374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11374 17912 bytes
SHA-256: fa350688b95e2e3eb8a6bd776e8a9c453198621b1b013d4fe2a9fc46628489e7
font_01_sfnt_off00014270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14270 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015a87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A87 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 281d5142f39ce140bf2d4891872bb1d7deb044a058b66c37d8ea61065af8b6ed