Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 290242fecbf6cea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 09:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a7673507e528e5202ff49f57e3ffd509 SHA-1: 2fd79fa19ccd7cd817f5fbe8474ad4f9615434d9 SHA-256: 290242fecbf6cea08bdeaf91ebf01f6829742974db7dc5820beaa23c4bdc8456
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains lures indicating it is a fake invoice or payment redirection, and also a browser extension/update installation lure. It hosts numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to download malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/podopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9ac68d9d8b735008c4f05767aaa78b/jafotokotabovoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54cdf869ec8d78a6ff0aa38b58db2d4f/92357265731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc6b41cf5d7---50237174698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d44692767---mifogiramavanuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6233464f52a8589f1a2915f0f259ffb9/69461002562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c143e0c5a1---57667500834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/47582937798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/kadananite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e5b98ca41---66016582813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiphangnhanh.net/uploads/image/files/manekanafivolejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/nowedebokonegitupokekapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f3091789ec724d2bef3aede6c3a840/63308518429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/49172931646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/36002715129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/18601708536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/17741614992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbea6033c0---12314089448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=8+ball+pool+instant+rewards+free+coins+app+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D23 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6b308e7f033c623ed3621876cb56ad4cb78ce747dd28526a1b587c256c8d60
font_01_sfnt_off00011fe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: dd94b2dfc3111218d6136202207d207ce38f2ec5fd41e1e241401c30aeca1faf