Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc6106ba52302105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:33:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 17bcdde588cca8c28456786718902849 SHA-1: 990d410a43ca38e0b0eda89062aaded94368b4f9 SHA-256: cc6106ba523021053a0198a769a9a180b7e7942ddd625fd303e3688af2ae0b7d
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a malicious intent to redirect the user. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests a business email compromise tactic, aiming to trick recipients into altering payment details. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/xiputebejofi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://szelvedojavitasmiskolc.hu/files/files/robipivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lalorraineperdue.com/documents/73885101335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/17723716049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/gobelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/52662546507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/42675760485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voripasifivuvagijewalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614572d43f5af---jubiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/file/94288483698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50843140183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145148d11585---kamesebezatova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acp-luxusingatlanok.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77828645247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/51986640814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5la19flespq8m8aqnpluisgdou/pofagiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/teniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79865108070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmqc0572dtvh4assn60292vt91/gusapevirelekosabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de70f98e2ec5f07eb439dae446e955d/doseragajepegodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/gupuzefesevimufexupofiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77310682586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalater-macecek.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28835633479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c32660b00dd9dd208988e35987d198e/21906026545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/jitudanejivivoxarezusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=telstra+webmail+login+emailPDF 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_off0000cfea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFEA 17040 bytes
SHA-256: b9defc43687de982314b785cae734fcc6afb2b40685748e66a7c3e6822236845
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11453 10640 bytes
SHA-256: d51559cf631f6933653625a6e00f85016d8df3e67f5ee9fffc3dc5fa3cd67285