Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca50fdb91ecd18d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c37c66aef36131759a70f85e6897a5dd SHA-1: 93a95c16782689e78b416361624675eabe18e71c SHA-256: ca50fdb91ecd18d52cabff283cf6af03153d181b04ee58bbd84f5f10e00578aa
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a payment redirection lure. Multiple URLs were extracted, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing campaign designed to trick users into believing they need to update payment details.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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://mashura.co/userfiles/files/fepebaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://redsky.tv/userfiles/files/3364537512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7bbnkmfkephgtbc6doe7242c5/6469869664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09277d4ca7---viwilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/75250527043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/55394055069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/jegefufixajodapukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/24234850577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/94952724432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wifugimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditoroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ima2dm8t248e8ua71cgpj3m22/jujutuwukuwepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02d6c5aa9d5f5e94b140d38ded671e99/33056323558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/lopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopaede4you.de/userfiles/file/zejuzodunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so84c2v5guhrrc9h6qqi9ci655/jidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad8f5fba70946cc89150b90647f8bf3/bitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/63667368162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoru4nun1lvsbqomb18jg8sjvh/geluliwobadenape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/getugeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb3463367a61ae075c4a2c766571619/rupowedatexojaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f10e856757---9057034192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64364336323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/71786466527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=qualities+of+good+accounting+information+pdfPDF 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_off0000dad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD4 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 58c7c7a6628177fea6d7991e3b1eb9215e096df73f9fe836da781181a7fae3f4
font_01_sfnt_off00010885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10885 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001209c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209C 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 4d54713f798d412538d01af02f912a6627c12b8cbd21abd5fac58a22a491e985