Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a264b5168c6a18ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 03:15:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 513e813a1369cb4baf488a2462d1d2ac SHA-1: 35a236dec2216cb6c7a7cdd0cbb2c5c279c661d1 SHA-256: a264b5168c6a18eca3391b74962b43f5a7950e67f429320dc163fbc48d9a9c59
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to redirect users to compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'payment redirection lure' heuristic suggests a business email compromise (BEC) style attack, aiming to trick users into changing payment details. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is part of a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=share+certificate+template+word+format PDF link annotation
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090394335589---86520770682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t21bro4qdkm5gh164c231v0hp5/16569700457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/vegabefozupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utlten0d09up71cnqtg42bn7d1/lumimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/56913306318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750428b2256---85167635811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/11835212077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/8460558204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/26827108121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b22b9de8c7c576b7fb204cd26372fd6/92986984370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/01152946664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vi7k2lgvna7edsonasj5hu366v/funinaviragosekadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088088fb6b8b---nonabimokuduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/bopugaruzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2itl8be5tqfjmqaks9i6e81qf/62251986784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/31302818213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D1 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6e8162f7a72facac230100eb0e50faf0a3ddfcff7cbd5f9b7e047ce9ba15e6
font_01_sfnt_off00010a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A22 12988 bytes
SHA-256: 7c3438c90a1403b8748389db9dd2d3d868fda0549444cb5f5e58df896c229ea8