Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c25c85a9e10a3b6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: be49227e5503edf5bcaa441abeee62ee SHA-1: 5dd8850b8e16a0fe0ab5b93d7926674067f2e3a0 SHA-256: c25c85a9e10a3b6f4b92e0483603fcb50fba77746cfc687086157b70cb644f73
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristics indicate a lure for payment redirection or browser extension installation, a common social engineering tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to facilitate credential theft or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/3287346709.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/384501f491e7d48012ec26dee463cc95/lixone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/pitumizozovuwoladabotaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/64052884775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covina.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/29313022676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/098572cc8704327855fbd7d4ed4b417b/15132485821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.lastrada.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/53459901475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/nuverukoxemigotozinigexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/39969969609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polytex.de/sites/default/files/xoruvexonufukokuzedezose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50930633231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403cc6e07d0---68942540952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38009218469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/zixodiwimadewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/wixibikoxisiliwefedejonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/8557722546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transgusto.ch/userfiles/file/7987919670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bedf2fc8a8cdacc0dbc56f5f4c2212ad/59860735407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/90634180814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97105688972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/18073942547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e98bc16ad300a437a4da80f5df077f2/64148192523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/burogesuvobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42363839526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+contract+from+iphone+to+androidPDF 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_off0000d7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C9 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 9b30d0a30b080c7e790bb9fdcd5b5f1cb1411d40e9f4b8733e42968d68daa632
font_01_sfnt_off0000f076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF076 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 613bc70e95c861ba962d3c0135e5c55614549f3038328a40ad36d77aa60379a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1