Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4935619ab9db5396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 23d296db9bff06d2c42e3a44d64dd039 SHA-1: ab2c7d26fac14ff23a77e461381c293899d1b896 SHA-256: 4935619ab9db539626ce63f9aa9551cb006f3603d86cb8ba5779b0b22a7fbc14
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically a payment redirection scam. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as intermediate redirects to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards an attempt to direct users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phillies+promotions+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129367f0b1e4---58360713374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec7763817b13431b05a0f82eb31f8a6c/zosunelebalelajutuniwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fcee52e2dca8cbd586f8a07194e97fb/gigefoxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/90823902658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joserivagobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/33884215947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/jijevarasuruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609463df1e878---nudoborekejinatozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/tuwaxiserevofopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3928s1dkq01r7plk2fhudjj4g/17667480003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/konitotuvijudezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5700c812fd11e9599fdaee32a6681a0/15733353942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/xiwojowujikiselefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/bewotomupupagupejanuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cdvilcl8jf7v3erten0tk4ol/96916044308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/56419730414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/mafudubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/mikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4794223028536bc168941d1254ab438d/femesovukazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/wedolizixukipojigikiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e9fd9866b3---93931047772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d7750e1b839797d58748fff0492468c/vopenoripulokagirativino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb71e284db---vaferadokeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ce4214cef---91094086691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namlongadc.vn/uploads/news/files/63853279186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e83iahncmkcobf2p16uthv1k33/boxepoxotaker.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_off0000e356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE356 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b49aebd40803c4775ed0a0f7339d6ca873fbc03e1dfe63a97a200b45ac8b579b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A4 17404 bytes
SHA-256: fcf31853984fd1d6b9a9705a3d626baac470bd66fc27ea14355bb513ef154371