Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e75ac35d86e8a33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 20:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1e9f8cfa3a0812bf40ca1615f99d41b7 SHA-1: 061a862a9bb31590cd6677e69d7d42386fed3afa SHA-256: 3e75ac35d86e8a33864680951c1be202e3f55bbc5822ce08b6c740d44b1b1827
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF contains numerous links hosted on compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests the document's content is a pretext for a business-email-compromise style attack, likely aiming to trick users into changing payment details or initiating fraudulent transactions. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826716df7b7---zuxonobodesurofome.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b920796a767d3065721e8bfba613aa30/12082431604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/49999959263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkewebseo.com/webroot/img/files/68220580163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/3506880131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118c823ee418---pamazigitavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7idq9oikksj3pkq01nsi70b06c/98435838574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hhtu70gtfv8mvqa3fcs678v01/69708904078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/67948923246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/25620629334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df433201bd---649427907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/xukesezosanijexerukufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/11736147542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110f4d6875d8---jegusakekujikobukejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/2862046268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/kurigipubaduvujumuwokunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/62437465999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sowekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/3431572344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f49dccb58---31081843132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccshecea.org/upload/files/35381219539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/kefapudomusejomiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rccifid05np2pjagaabhabubg4/sevudewenijevurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976ed4847b9763bd830a78f9c775589e/luroliravanebepafajalixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210608234306606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=state+bank+of+india+sukanya+samriddhi+account+opening+form+onlinePDF 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_off0000f45b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45B 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 43d8a4732ec0a44b12a76aebed3b60b1ee932d2993b46238788a3c20abb06d8d
font_01_sfnt_off00012071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13888 11588 bytes
SHA-256: 2b464c86657d3b832ae3c431682dc8292dfbc337b2892b50ad0d7ce47b5bc25b