Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c466239b798a8b33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 388c04a74a09766d6b474f91747cb653 SHA-1: 15c361b028c4563b3d98f70309d2a55930917e15 SHA-256: c466239b798a8b330cdcdafb9c67a0c2361c17c88414824eeac96f2ae33f9e87
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Steal or Modify Data

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of brand-impersonation credential phishing. It impersonates Apple iCloud and directs the user to click a link, which leads to a credential phishing page. The document also contains multiple links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final phishing destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+email+authentication+failed.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/49482827342.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapudigakobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210921000458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65932d0eeb46f095317727936e83fa7/fawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/nabuxujewirujagopileluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/26040979036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109050706173132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210910182016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/54213925536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/17928344501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441a997f2f5---91159360974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/podapusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/wubatodivewolozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/46608797011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/jugoreronisutexafapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161447f797ffea---55259126444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://y3stwk65l-mn9.com/contents/files/kutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/33120902518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/sorizetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30471347747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33703764094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu4s9vetm6l1gsgefrggo0bph4/nusejasasusixadixejatipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/56128364692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/58715734991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/lizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+email+authentication+failedPDF 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_off0000d880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD880 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF092 17436 bytes
SHA-256: f3c67394f9e7b72066d2ab4cbd1c4fb8dc082011aeb608b81e3ff114029d47e0
font_02_sfnt_off00011dce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCE 10652 bytes
SHA-256: b366ea662524bc113177219fa7eb4024e00a89a8a367143d98a0743335fc6d74