Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0c167292ba8868c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 11:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a829a295d1813944e5c3f02c2158646d SHA-1: 1e70e7d47dc9924a5bb38719c23c38404ce60c77 SHA-256: e0c167292ba8868c687e19ff87de4690fb5aeef51aa4d37e0ec14e8a9d69e506
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1534 Internal Spearphishing

The PDF contains a link farm and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically for credential phishing. The heuristic 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' indicates it impersonates Microsoft, directing users to a non-matching host for credential submission. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+time+to+weight+lift.
  • 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://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/31934690971.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/takipoxapetuxuredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/xadawigobesorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57cf2a58107950f04367b8f0b505062d/36407241112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210515155920321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omf3feffkvr1dgf9gfu4r025e2/kuboladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/jipilulujofukufuvinifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e61395702---11790809970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072df32a3fe1---9416917617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/33063638771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/96648005756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81043511782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821a811b878---fuxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/kebelasizoxuvekitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonipopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/99369855725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/905776c28a4417e1dbcd0de54ff584bc/1790257785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/gexuviziselepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080845e18995---fasatukifaxovizofefejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/80846656926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede3dbd9887---bepowigizosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94232b5ca2d83f6463ea341c9047e993/guzilabadesolesebosolelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbbf5a85a9a2ee1dd193481c72d44d08/53433088121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+time+to+weight+liftPDF 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_off0000e96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96F 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 6caf4346913f6f0b44ec7f1dbeaf63fab9392ed6dd2f53969822d0c86f92d938
font_01_sfnt_off0001012d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012D 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6afa768071a0799c7f6bc8530c666181e785cc66f7b9625f24cd7e52679e64
font_02_sfnt_off00012f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1