Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 007e5291a0da0b86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 17:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2eaf028807020aad09b07f5a5cf382d7 SHA-1: 94caa4b5000f7c665a37ac0a0535aacbffef23c7 SHA-256: 007e5291a0da0b862fff95d35a5d938b854d6cc9ce8efe8687f0164df85eeaef
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a business email compromise or phishing attempt related to financial transactions. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point towards a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747d0c14e1e---76233700386.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607270f256de9---kodubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608677444fcc0---21513025004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haciendaloscipreses.cl/upload/file/77582391387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210723153130_2btd6x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e0fef12ca---jujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf9abf2b3e---55717658876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/sedike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4361fa2bd9---wipobutozolazesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/litika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/letafupuwiluroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/580396971eaa596b27b4b9e3254072b9/45860969166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119b63a6528c---88309387517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a7d56bf3c6b83abe062f72b80a56a7/sukekajafufelutazodezavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/vekozuxeletejosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/fexazupatubuzava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/per7s56mkku811hioei2ofr869/8196269775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vumebavifazigebilizedisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b5b77636e43cd84f846e7f7fdc9175/rulenidafexiragunukopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/fovigigojurerobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/jajigunukusetubudidosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5240a7780---30206243432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b4c8f3664---13806287551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/94256750908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/98938269709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+a+bank+statementPDF 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_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FA 19312 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee4d51f151c6830168df423dac0468afb02bfc44c85c9ca47e6e9235cc48e0a
font_02_sfnt_off000123b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B2 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 8353813a11ea8921e56a44f4e7acfd0f53a6565f0f6b1a6ddc86bdc381518be6