Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d56ee8bda030e53e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 82feceb37f801d56ceb4aa470a2e1f42 SHA-1: 0cdfcb7cede5841cb482e31db52e3009d5024dc6 SHA-256: d56ee8bda030e53e9babb71799e521cea04ef9d827fa7b0fe2d4d3986dff33d8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a payment redirection lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or financial scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842e98274c0---74500402805.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/43139885154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210517085744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca7053d29c---58660380001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58rh19g893q2a7hil79b5ev5j3/75291890855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/duxivoziwusofatujoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94687d220a14b04ccab75fb5de62a36c/51682092581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6ecea0363---57212176756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zaluziemalina.cz/userfiles/file/96808203581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5506udki1nik8qfjub6sgvsmfj/vetufesodejupazagegosuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c44c23bcdc---xokogisuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a305993ccb---93297334818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab074a06cac---zejakowokeselidugawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1a0b2a02c---7497587925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de02d32d0d76c734edcedc41d18134ba/gumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c195bfc62de8b19d8e54c3ca5dfc608c/gijewubulovibexodeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9688f2100495f901aab47eb1824e7fd0/29374494641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/45592813924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be40db591a1aa4916b6d9e6601fb2b11/pifugotimekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0mn9ua15drgbnl7rj13tmvuhp/kidolumivaregejamajilili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/25664547751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/veduwudinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443ac1a620---17273191042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bfeb6452ea6788bbb6177b8a651cfc/pikofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/43279850214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/redasirojalelokajegerijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee0daa39c2---wexofadenitatavavoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/23879989438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=plot+in+narrative+writingPDF 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_off0000f0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C7 16848 bytes
SHA-256: a71249bc25e658db311de91d2f2860140828ccccd9e5d6317fddcb70d8b0d55c
font_01_sfnt_off00011c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1D 10268 bytes
SHA-256: d13eb5004867d170ddb1440540129b37745269c5c31cd2b13ad563d59a7b7f7d
font_02_sfnt_off00013362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13362 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1