Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 710ff92538d3abf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6b419fae4006531ee4f4d1f2d7e85cbb SHA-1: de984c5d7186f4f31eadbecd3a7f129292eccca4 SHA-256: 710ff92538d3abf3ea625d5eba4771e1adcc8f3fc715641f0796657e61ea5ec4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically a 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic firing, indicating it attempts to trick users with fake financial instructions. Numerous external URIs were extracted, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution network for malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=letter+to+add+someone+to+bank+account PDF link annotation
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/guxubetuwekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/jubuzaviman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4nf6449un9101f04qmoej2d91/89733175414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a769cea82dc4bf79a7783b7120227e/zewaxaloteponajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ab170b439f18c19c607d22d22477f9/77949459876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2lpgn4fdjv43l418dttriaupm/81147799059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d8933863c---mamozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia1f2l2a0huge9k5q5q39794bl/lametaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1624041040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/43715044641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/kagefiximiselaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769f3f3079c---marojajafega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c436181c74e---62757447664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770c14c952b---rasabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2281b2b3c8fe05dc82d4f8bfd889de9e/82964526106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e749a2e31---76019570101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/9787938610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f32a5aa3a922ed018f3485731830fa0/kadalufonetodebamafefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a2719d85d76e1ff4ba88440da9441f1/zomefamuvuwerofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d978ad79642b4c8dc6a024a51653e3/mifoxokuxajanumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqpcbld2l4b279fbo1h6qk77cg/biwunidawoxuwolikepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/78872496582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3acc1d70c---14893923084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/92355127091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080146472fb2---muvuronaronewakevut.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_off0000ca0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA0A 16048 bytes
SHA-256: dfe6645dd35db3c8468bd32dc9b40e34934ff387db5e3dcd7615cdb9b73666ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF345 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 77807bf2cd2d042394f8123480be485a9d22b76b346758de4fae8576bef909eb
font_02_sfnt_off00010bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1