Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b81cf5bbc6c166c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d788fb02402ea366ef121141d1387060 SHA-1: 6116c7864c1ca90b9a56196ac0d2027bb34dc638 SHA-256: 8b81cf5bbc6c166c613b1ef6bfafb85ab54ea769ceb193cace345a77db90445f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, including links to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests a business email compromise (BEC) or financial fraud attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery, contributing to the overall malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b0df6ce630e72000fcedfcda6dec055/72365274055.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/mupulagosujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_13_05_45_27_4059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/faxifokuduxoxanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usairsprings.com/userfiles/file/77067096194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/47834232447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/18355503813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/dififuxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-spb.com/userfiles/file/titomelerejoriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iulpfr28frts718q25t8o42110/gulefozarofaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/38591499684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/vapamodekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlschuz.com/userfiles/files/vadakadege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/gejenibosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/mibajowobusidotetevimusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c016b689da---14073643498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10460940259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/mogaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorus.rs/files/sowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/16816870632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/65699099769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/xezogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/42201517706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sim2007.com/files/seremusejuzivobuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverspringabw.com/uploads/files/zagixanarojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagigagabigutazufopiloniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cat+goes+fishing+unblockedPDF 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_off00010cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F0 19244 bytes
SHA-256: 93bfa2045bbb2c26596d0a11ac9591db9db3adc27d6ea65484628f500e913caf
font_02_sfnt_off0001577a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1577A 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 91ae2e4bbf3a24303ce9e2e313adac1cbe8b073773537c3c123bad773a538ec7