Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f7041e48b9d1ad7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c159263f1ec65e3ceff52ccd96ace7ea SHA-1: f78fafd18ccf36c5f570abe57297ac2621975054 SHA-256: 2f7041e48b9d1ad7e2870d81345bfe4651211ba35ccd258979b881c388068cfc
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into changing payment details or making fraudulent transactions. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e621254726---13586956211.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t00olltroasgs5ras7fa5456il/dadotalivusopusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc79a49202---vixetowabija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee0b5830f1---75812967335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/74345009362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saveteturitoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/genenikivuliwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/nevizasivanilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/kabegubazizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/xavazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/rafevaxadiranuguporela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/18777755769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/594d05c1b6dc74b11096af19c4de09e0/22759500580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/38398688764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/35909176313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/16268617254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/92679601530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b09344f2e---92729440666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_75D43DDFDAF8B465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carraracucinecomponibilitrapani.it/userfiles/files/26605358657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/mabasozefobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/kisoraluramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/banexinijegadarumizizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793d4056b3f---33272463801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0jo9r6ki0hq2qt4bri9hm89nr/11845175766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=manual+setup+outlook+2013+office+365PDF 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_off0000e4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B0 18972 bytes
SHA-256: e59f260c8b57b876bd173f9c5283b5ce1becd28cd6e1b9c20599e0504dc4d50a
font_01_sfnt_off000115e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFF 11328 bytes
SHA-256: cdedc25c36c2eb6a6511297c6623d98bbb876003590cf2db834c9d4d4e6dfc08