Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e7416705b8bb4d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa2bdeb3e24b219c97020e969b892f03 SHA-1: 3e70c9c93586366c8513152f8ed29fbff4a88d31 SHA-256: 8e7416705b8bb4d52b1946a824f8358280baad58515dcd539e0b3e26d1da01a9
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it is a payment redirection lure, suggesting a business email compromise (BEC) attack. The PDF contains numerous links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, likely serving as a link farm to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the nature of the lure and the presence of multiple external links strongly suggest an attempt to trick the user into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://horkolas-gatlas.hu/ufiles/file/20373762695.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synergienetwork.net/userfiles/file/latepivogunumafolesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/metetuxetiburawilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/58217441229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/bixeragadixuzejigitugurol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b478ba72---47083484117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/75844929286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/19571594657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/vusunijeletekipive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liepasmuiza.lv/userfiles/library/14696222543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesrimaudieres.com/images/uploads/file/65222749421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomapuluvegekoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123flower.doweb.kr/upload/files/75165761155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimabuxusujikedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spec-so.ru/sites/default/files/file/46969594144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/fufelaxutojawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/72548115647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/balelibomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/19411787891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/77764444161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marjoleintje.nl/include/userfiles/808752562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/70432235236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/xudazaxejaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/lepovasarakaradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06d4ecd10d8034720ea2629521fdbdfe/85686611078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://predial-rua-nova.pt/056-CovadaLua/images-editor/file/tamilamefofoxidasubepades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sync+phone+to+another+phonePDF 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_off0000d831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD831 18768 bytes
SHA-256: f401a3c8e0e7e935871ae35cbf9ee8662829083479e10cbc0cf756d16eaddc05
font_01_sfnt_off000108c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C8 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6de3c4bf14ad09d80687e477775af648ce6fdae8caf97c68c6cc69c7fd129a
font_02_sfnt_off00012025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12025 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1