Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d860069ee6fc2fdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c7fbb186310130940e007966fc33a958 SHA-1: 2d5201b132e6c568eb58a82e52b4951d29750a49 SHA-256: d860069ee6fc2fdf5e2df42388881e0efa011fde6d1f173a2143aad737cd4d74
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and impersonates Amazon to lure users into clicking a malicious link. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest a phishing attempt to steal credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=biology+book+online+holt+mcdougal.
  • 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://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae68a0070bf3b48d465bb3eec0933b9/sejivito.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/romonagesetodonupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/wakiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/weridefowiwovagibuwabila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/nusogolufexodedigipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batalererebuxonoxujoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/todumelalilirifidevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53169b50c6deb49688f25e544f696d80/forijimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d06s9irc78j5jk1gocsabgbli/tedunitutini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95601447202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/65315675754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607459a2d636b---20066151425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad735cfb48---88774013998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/gidifubiwukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b45530dad---josolojokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/99877733016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iworking.vn/uploads/files/58969509482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/57979515988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d097be2a15d0f74cc2a6e2e6b640c733/99928952681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/52210640988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kijufefipolodapadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutakegosujuvabese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bab4481d208125e5d6c2ac28f0f0e4/87860256427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ee90e0a98---7338478473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/rabivalisojiligonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/maxisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=biology+book+online+holt+mcdougalPDF 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_off0000e41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41D 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 2b809a34994525784387f3275a101ff202a395dbb6a8cf2e5afc4439bb621fb1
font_01_sfnt_off00011176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11176 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001298d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298D 11048 bytes
SHA-256: be83a18c8684f3da701f7168e6473e114829d54f50031386f67f6e4ded3393a2