Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4055026e06b94c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d302cd2d083b8fd73fe1d1ebabe86fb8 SHA-1: bb863eabcd4badef6ebadfbe8a9e645b29d501e5 SHA-256: 4055026e06b94c9f5bf96942fa6b91c52af25e4fb0c65c0eeed1ef8a85c3108d
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external links, with a high-confidence heuristic indicating a payment redirection lure. One of the links points to a compromised WordPress upload directory, a common technique for hosting malicious files in business email compromise scams. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/kavisokupewoxinedizulupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d3454e55c---83966692414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uroci-kursove.com/userfiles/file/51126928792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/81003023118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/bikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e7ee4a5abb46a2d372383c8229c88f/wasimola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijukutitejejosafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debunebubisojolofamano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zilabufokitulasazofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/44235179520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devipitetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budarejaduwuvodirigenokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomei4x4.jp/js/upload/files/sezizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f09aa1d900---64756269348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/5070132397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66231145681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7b67cb517---58980344191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9486414995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greentreeprep.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84554277762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66610519554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/49228459370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamizamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+see+story+on+a+private+accountPDF 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_off0000dc40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC40 17488 bytes
SHA-256: b4b6bcb0898129d749199f7aab758a9bb829a0a8c198cd514d3831a2922b4dd3
font_01_sfnt_off0001095b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095B 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd311ce3150f1844ba557adb2c02759302398831b8ec861a424ec822932ce8a
font_02_sfnt_off000121f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1