Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8220fa779d50fbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 00:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: edb52c061c9fe84162ff2caedc008f01 SHA-1: 0fd35fb82100d943c89a11d731854bdffe484314 SHA-256: 8220fa779d50fbe2d1a14df7013af245c623ec0beb51a6fca77ab828276dca56
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF document contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristics indicate a payment redirection lure and an urgency lure, suggesting the document is designed to trick the user into clicking a link to a malicious site, likely for financial fraud. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sbi+sukanya+samriddhi+account+opening+form PDF link annotation
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6v89klp68f4cflcesjn0f949e/solexijegoruwofule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/guzolumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/65620320749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/suwavowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf1cf33e4e---45719595072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdafcaf91e9ea90986d68c06e7f64816/sijefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1db8022991f9e594451f397a2ba9cc/53802816338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdeo5srncvlo4cili9gof4r4o9/69920875478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carscaso.com/js/upload/files/3494024729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/47777172979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/84444849060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb67b9e315d---samozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7050711841---bapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe7ac54aa603aee6e0021748bc4a5f3/90221784440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/nopitapokekenivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/zelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/buvaniduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/nogopogabawowusaputegakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/lilimipimamepowenigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d625a2b559---30525996833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mpdbmhcvvqtab677to2flfss6/33581285905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/faloferem.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_off0000f50b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50B 16956 bytes
SHA-256: eaf178d19060c9085ac7fc309d4047b0fe8e9198da90314d3d736913ce90ce38
font_01_sfnt_off0001215d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215D 11544 bytes
SHA-256: bac70770425372bbd42368306c91d047a74bbbd67459c3c2add133eeeb547609
font_02_sfnt_off00013c28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1