Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb45447f3a58651…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: fd621c7d93a9dc3d1276644020775936 SHA-1: c61fe1600f707daa5c93cce8b60ac9fb6513e771 SHA-256: 4eb45447f3a58651cf634456f7a9fccc6706f897f2eb8fba2d3152bc667ec537
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including links to algorithmically generated URLs and a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into changing payment details. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF-specific exploit heuristics and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate the document likely exploits a PDF vulnerability to execute a payload, possibly a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+equation+solved+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j31pa9rqfr83kf1d0hrotas58u/poferiparesisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/1084800333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29540129007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovofilm.cz/userfiles/file/watezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a578e00779d---99082681687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f67d8edb3---vazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090504571573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3c00f0183---31908340228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/78397331802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5be089372---dirikamejowapadajamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9sb7bnph415bbe8h1859r1ir3/20852559368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebizikugojefivoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad968942618f60364780b617a3dc2c43/49301093452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0f81543b81---58654049780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/7965496857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e56fd3344d---pidumesagufofojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/78761469726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed922e2800b---zumafusiwegusiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607143cd52a54---ziluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nida6nucjpc8m5k206gg9lrpo/80338066726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/67683458048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607759b61886f---71005338918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/36405989300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/tikamaxatutepunapirimida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15148480542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/rekumaneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a804fbaa947---69482682871.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_off0000d669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD669 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7B 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd22d3a5408f0a4c554c1db2050a93b1933943e35374065a62e557a33ead115
font_02_sfnt_off00011d0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0F 11256 bytes
SHA-256: bc835ab825affbcc4ce3f9291abb6e546119209cc241743c44a76317966957ba