Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 275c519fed1de514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:12:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 46005ebdabc7826fbec2cdea9b4d394d SHA-1: cd63103e12e2a20d39fb98635273882b6fa4ff01 SHA-256: 275c519fed1de5143bd3d4f6363fe3300d5b69dad3f6b0a1a2ab83c28e1b0d28
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests the intent is to trick users into believing they are interacting with a legitimate financial institution, likely for credential theft. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • 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://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087d69ef5d0b6160b9257925298f5162/52928401588.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratologonob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81bce2b3d3---dalufenegerine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tk1ob7aekfb20kv3dligpog74/dujifiwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/28660654644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c86b2f2187d2e5a36c298d053c58eba/54888317493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7360bd20b38408bd3cba939890fbc5e/fewezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae6e3d4529---gidutokezevoxetimefagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/75276105797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e484bda9c9553db32bb0f463d6ea9b73/87826249681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0981de991---jikofupamotuwadapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa8a6f7074d9c0808f1016e031aa521/97507767217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/445smm79e1fo8bllg7bjfr61vi/80266525088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/13636769281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785d67bdc0a---xeputila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/76497717180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/52514907040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subutikivujadafobidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr//sites/default/files/files/kixamuseweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skastbpqmjh54sh62n77rcmcdd/40302497175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940c698b130---55065990217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjhp1fofac8fr0qmrf60r322f0/58002831465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3444ec3618---96788783462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/bamodeguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+register+for+capitec+online+bankingPDF 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_off0001147f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C96 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd85af40c2b86b95d66e6c0b4c1130297793b793470eec8977c95a7b0054ee7
font_02_sfnt_off000145f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145F4 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 238e2077ba7adbaf526c927f873b77e5e9b45d2a69208d1daa502f60a9e93d53