Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c502076884861fbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f52d4f7e70a5947deb385dc8849bbbd3 SHA-1: 35dad6ebc06b2dff03461976773c9a5f1b3ac5f5 SHA-256: c502076884861fbe4dadf659d1742f02a0cfce40c6091431f8b40f96de1eaa8f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with specific heuristics indicating it is an advance-fee scam lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or social engineering attack. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a scam involving lottery winnings or parcel delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=would+you+rather+questions+for+elderly
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/vagima.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c05a607b8---89530312045.pdf
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c791cc2f1cea16e2f4993cd0aa4ce0c/63582793831.pdf
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/kamofuki.pdf
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/88838091551.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490c1ea302---19391406239.pdf
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/pogapuserituwejudupusur.pdf
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/fidugokudikene.pdf
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/38781156482.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c8b805c22---fegozabexitopedivow.pdf
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/tefipus.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7fcb770af---96600126650.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/79114216605.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/vugevoj.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703b5de533c---31942418637.pdf
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b55de60069---xurokasewikokusedipomibe.pdf
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/37508749475.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eea757eaba---58737401461.pdf
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/nulegepebamivuxufijanozot.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebeea41961---46624628021.pdf
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0fb5ddf8b---25701262842.pdf
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/sogoxiginidusulenewa.pdf
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/29902957263.pdf
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/97021073721.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8b1a82b0b---ruzesumeguzatilefa.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66666c869e---kagiluvufalenisifavezu.pdf
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/32892702641.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm0lct510tjtc32m6b5dkroru0/jopamidaba.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed77.bin
0f455f5d5e3f8292ff42438592edae3b5bac036ee362dfcdc87ad10333141ce4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED77 16936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011942.bin
30b4b95445c9030cda9340ca9e6eb9f71c530446fe8fa4b51902bec88e0522fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11942 10804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131f2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F2 16792 bytes