Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aee54df26bee33b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2593da68b3ce79eca3b056e46d85f250 SHA-1: c6217087da23ae595d6b913a3d55001baab1ce3d SHA-256: aee54df26bee33b8005ff6956100c2218dd79401c3c3f265a847c431e9ddb118
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. Heuristics indicate a link farm pattern and a lure related to payment redirection, suggesting a phishing attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 http://lexus-custom.com/js/upload/files/47068832637.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://weighlessthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawowejadoratomewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/49841828006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favourtec.com/attachment/file/27619197457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/64914036453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/71773116436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/gosuzuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewikivimavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/jujipubire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21986051068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/3971466478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkenterprisesonline.com/FCKeditor/file/38431987657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pikozeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/tevidaxugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/34437853325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/96813436007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91338414251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/41386499170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34778651025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/fozerupuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339b51170bf---loxujeluvezevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/31554713624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cfm1859elrqhog11abi43peh1/nazavipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/54498145995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bcbc6dbf1---xefuwumurage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+3+methodologyPDF 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_off00013ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA0 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 5318b79de03336918b293becb5028608e0eed53bb89a7685852e0a14ecc753e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15759 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016f6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F6B 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 91dcd7b6d9a6a107e3c0f0474b822184afdba7c72a017e06fc97cc363277b03b