Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d21818b5deb94425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 03:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bd76ea4a9c70397f3c4a897027337a07 SHA-1: c6583b18a9b04ae43f19aad9dc0f58b3606f0cea SHA-256: d21818b5deb94425ca144c35edd18465bc950b20ba452d35314cbc25080c16ab
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised websites, including one that appears to be a WordPress upload directory. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into changing payment details. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137a904ffc---mibajonadizeninunu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/palubulujogajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/85277432908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/foloseleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2gacor.com/contents/files/23196370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1eec786f2---65330262798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentralperdana.com/file/jejagubakujuxasazusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/34017188773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71914657245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/19498200068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/29886535192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/56043170883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/76518337997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d7e0793c8f58791306f2628f0583f0/lozebekupijuzimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390a6699613---nutonagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/lojinezixikifexofeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f336948ec8b9379f7b8b9ff1c5145de8/wabidiriboresiparofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/jemepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210901213225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kuzikotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/kelixunelirilizotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/kefemiturutomeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912030119464131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=redeem+code+nba+2k20+mobilePDF 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_off0000d90a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90A 17880 bytes
SHA-256: e0cd8cbee38c2522b45923c6b2e9a374f2bfa716a9dfbbb003fd702a53eec6cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10705 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1C 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 92289b7743b308e00567651acbdfb0efa8cac4a36c4afee71b0b22f513dafdb5