Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 329781a0733dd98d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a0c4a8c99ffcaab6c041bcc6651aa119 SHA-1: 3b7a749334e279de66d703dbf51f90b4c74d9b3a SHA-256: 329781a0733dd98da3881fc86a21d7a4d5523c9591b00f8d4a25a532cae3acab
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The presence of a 'Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure' and numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage strongly suggests a business email compromise (BEC) or financial fraud attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs indicate it is designed to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+your+contacts+to+another+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/63876639203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210905161258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wamakunurujepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/58101405408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctyhoanongangiang.com/userfiles/file/54100113274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/79636051415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369bc31856b---38831153880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basar-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/tanavusuwezixuremifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/13007396665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/67019916532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begues.mobi/userfiles/file/kasafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132449205085---kalenumegasuxubemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogamabixigexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49860856083c1ac7f8b68c0e37021671/77013544360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379aacbf537---77727460084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmetinternationalschool.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejofugatotodiwolozujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islenapuntos.com/campannas/file/gizodifitukuwagop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_33AD2E6E7946240E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmcmanager.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10731771455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73856209290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386ce0808e5---88262356320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e84bca7190---73203374052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE526 18740 bytes
SHA-256: aca3f45adc36046164039f8aaa0b5ac7bbe39b9f89343b7c6b206b498f6ab56d
font_01_sfnt_off000114aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC1 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 1d26970ab9d42a114debee66ba5a4af46361bf48b72a4f4355ed12d3b668fd2f