Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e45ea6669a2bd2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6abe3dbc55dc126f8698d8a0c75b7666 SHA-1: 41777103acf60cc0bf812f28d1430fa8bf3ff3cc SHA-256: 6e45ea6669a2bd2dbd58724d31d8d7e2ea566a1f54cf899e5afbed85eee70e27
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The presence of 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' and 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristics indicates the document likely attempts to trick the user into making fraudulent payments or engaging with a scammer via a callback. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or redirection attempt, potentially leading to further malicious content or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=letter+to+credit+bureau+to+remove+old+debt PDF link annotation
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5ptpp797s1ppt4ebf01v20khd/72084576759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/56740459543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e808dced55bdbe3ef9dc0b671719e7/86022626332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c9cb9cb89334f4c0cdae7148c77dbd6/solob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/6076246114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/zubipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd13851cad---65286151991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/zikubexedabimulasunubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ea3dc633---41478486582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdceta02.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/gubikoxuxodozarudegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/nejomarotejobizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473c9a96f2---73678730806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/46298004194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damavurijimotufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_BC939C25DBA61C0F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ba32bdedd---wopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9698861da7---dujozupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/tewawatikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9b00c6ef4---31511752732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/023357672f554bd6768b1feef96810c7/75071157828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999852191e6---99102325632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608790ee3eaa4---58381632599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsj6jke1hhte41e42c6alqubr1/kobagizogiwagigipinagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7a94fc4d69---lokavijubilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hi89doo1d3osnb1qbjr7mssi44/36324103001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743f0a3e470---72252757516.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_off0000fa84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11296 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 8526175bf774b4f32d4f9292f972fa36c8a7a6aced2846c686d63f46494e5134
font_02_sfnt_off00013ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EF4 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 4f997695dad941de2cdb04ee3997aeed01d376ced1eeb4caebd76bdb35bdc928