Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f13199479a2feae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dafcfc567a86b3a6bf7e0f99353abc85 SHA-1: ea4fe43b968adfc67e592622990760a98d7d7db7 SHA-256: 9f13199479a2feae1f67864663e23d213212bbdd6f399a052ae5a173166b4d76
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically a payment redirection scam, as indicated by the 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' and 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristics. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ano+ang+deed+of+sale PDF link annotation
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/kefarafijavupameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b620c4a27e5d56fab9156746cd30f3e0/64278258553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075f10e834a73c3a2a1bf33cb3e3d5de/97395363664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8035603539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6422df5337bf7ea69f69f3104d9efefc/mokazawiborigimalusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/gulilizuravox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf1d05b217fa5d49c0f0aac15dd42b9/wosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742a54cef56---22931502824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ccc9ff1b87c96879bac2092d2a633d/6856258749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608158487bcb9---75659173389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607191e34264b---34405248040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/pigufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/18939086552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/11672296553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a59e2ef37---zopanisuwupefufizivugijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/wekobibazepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/demiwivudurerupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8nb5v98t5b8g3kja3mkvgro0/zetabagegijezifexini.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_off0000dd87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD87 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 3da6633bd7421b8692ad2df32b9bea92ec33ca38ece7a29e03b5624c3aba1f47
font_01_sfnt_off0000f468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF468 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 102a1848b813857266e69db019ba2c33a0ec73e23453898537d9f4bef76ec40d
font_02_sfnt_off000120c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1