Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddbfdec16e2a7233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 08:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a73b386a1759671dc6b7c1035ed43230 SHA-1: 5d57f8593e4edcd6391e4de75da425956c1c146c SHA-256: ddbfdec16e2a723302b66231c59c4ce34a3a19aa7e92bc5df32011a695b670f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that impersonates PayPal to phish for user credentials. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and one directly to an IP address, all likely intended to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' heuristic confirms the phishing intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=measure+of+exterior+angles+of+a+hexagon.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8edcd8a33c484e50f1a031d6647a361/82454058495.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/24806213552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/foxufaromikagidoxulara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/62461363311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db068fed95e769eeb9b705ef1a2cedb8/30211204164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/77188067648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/55539824813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/resinixadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/silizifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vflkvpmht94jfabc1qb6vkru2g/61830518029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i5vmqvr7smkpql6tm4j6bm39g/1230005353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/24609811533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodolibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59fb8886938d658aee41e15b3b661d10/63003385495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55313f3112---timibawekedufanufufa.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9c38d07c5b757b7c685a8b4ae715af/12199320187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/77518523196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/67179771142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/99041344421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210516145833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/13893361171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/sodafokifukajukukobowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccfd3c75a5---84408230064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/mefopofepibigusifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735c3e40b7f---17207519426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=measure+of+exterior+angles+of+a+hexagonPDF 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_off0000e335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE335 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 0bced86f4cf860b2bd4c0cb395c83ccb9fd0dd0d4872734d7c6d8d694dab8935
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001280d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280D 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 0828b441ea2640ba1ad395e820f9aba60cb181221d65aa78d800684a6336dd13