Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45d9248db72a70f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 05:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 78ff169436d09b6c37f91cf56e26f3bb SHA-1: de3e5132414d5459ff742473c4fd69b8e827d073 SHA-256: 45d9248db72a70f029bba1596dff6cd8bd37b831195ef99f34cd22e3d2be6999
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely impersonates financial instructions, aiming to trick users into fraudulent transactions. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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 https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10j8md3bv5edggjhnj14pq64l2/80023455177.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01068a0dd2---85453631714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s2u7kkgk4307t631dhk2rvgb7/82398238694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/zesuvuxuzixoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/kasunimawivaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/tizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3fkada6qnjaru8ubln5q6v7ro/63224529389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c5f173354---vubutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105130457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c31ea204ef05bb996137db753a652cb/71633445904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87e17dab1d---75144062107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/wudomenipodisexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///34726839161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/18900089563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aeba8f7bdc56d2a0d45d09a1d774f3e/82251005708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///nubebafilujafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/bagazevusunuminisobugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowry-averyreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0e4e7922159a76f956c19110b7bfeb7/File/jaduzobuzuguvawevosemeguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/57309022781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d6fb36ca9---94634552818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce550c0d55f6fa0dfa9e0a512bfa1281/lamopibozuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/25975015366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/92014504518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27745d870a---49260317272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c0eeeac2abae002dc3c472bbdf033c/dojubekemovilakosobava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+hidden+object+puzzles+for+adultsPDF 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_off0001011b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11932 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 65f526f9fad94735ca85583ba5a100c3b3d4bd9e2d877cdedfaa22b810947d44
font_02_sfnt_off000132cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CF 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 40a40f2c53db4647826fbde11a4127bd3b114c89e989774e36fbecb996a6c149