Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c3f92556748da98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f89c5f3ac3ee6bfb68ee016867476c8 SHA-1: 6c21300556919ccc07a6feadbf9a720e55d0ca33 SHA-256: 7c3f92556748da984407edfdad01bc07ccfaf2c29b1e015a3268ee491e4f6b05
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly indicates the document's intent is to trick users into believing there are changes to payment or bank details, a common tactic in business email compromise attacks. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/kadago.pdf
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/5537494730.pdf
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/80307525942.pdf
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/togokodabivin.pdf
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/57926147453.pdf
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t70hsvhf5i4q5s676vp5ielv7m/59482846284.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9umi32f08874rpn7rnj8f3q1j/70740156328.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v12imajn5tq801errii896jhtl/25344235074.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d89478c575278f4e617b37033595faf/xamukikesalajasa.pdf
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54677930403.pdf
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87800926546.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607726e8cba57---vizubotobodisema.pdf
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/16346196208.pdf
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/xokonumorikumisa.pdf
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/rorutefejiziju.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a85e3b52e1a373a6dbb43b6b2dec57/nuwuze.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c0b845f335---45903175367.pdf
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/25421715580.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9131831cd7---92514507213.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bea788a00---bifepuvetufuneredilirawez.pdf
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/8645543399.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4715281de37e02fc6bd4dc4bf7453a70/45887765898.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=inkomstdeklaration+1+2019+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e662.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE662 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe79.bin
71aba5d08467f69dae5c3b47e667b8f40c6269f7f706a08f01f7a7262ca2514d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE79 11164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011896.bin
b8a8da7eea8602a917b8461e1067fc64a55ba60ac4bd5e3d089e4c4488daf5a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11896 19356 bytes