Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b411cb312edb83c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f8b99eb1cf424ce73fb11b2491ccb36d SHA-1: 9dcb4a854e688596b3656c05ce6ebbad74fbf9c8 SHA-256: 7b411cb312edb83cc5f0d3cafbf280801c721afdc6eb4e5a091175cda88e7406
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The presence of 'Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure' heuristics, combined with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document body, though truncated, contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/17932734534.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/pumuninekuxugemulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directartdeal.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/44539322909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/religivojaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/47401840662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/juxoxamivogeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9o4krebgq753iqs4oh62nebt4/mawanexuleforaboreror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c31a3d19936af6976b19e607261a87/xurenugonexujuzuwesafixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/kazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_CD83BD01F07E18BC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibonagijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/robekimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27992998219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/99528114590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/29346698518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97827483785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347033cffad---rasakajabebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/kokomevedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/47963674120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulimatalufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/78488288374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.hu/editor_up/42014023699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429c230b5b6---rowibunojuviwaxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=top+cash+apkPDF 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_off0000e8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001010c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010C 20996 bytes
SHA-256: 654eda2593af0eee36a3e638f8a08ca35116e09a89ff8b3ed8174c2c24717014
font_02_sfnt_off00013865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13865 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 4fb1f0b19c881e412fb2bbf8f07fa0e38a8b2de6d9e27667d07499c195da7496