Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e96626936f61f49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e107077770f8dd0796e92a4293d8a141 SHA-1: d1f72bcbc120f99a19cdbdfa9ab89565652fe19a SHA-256: e96626936f61f49a449d30afa4e560503c0e2ed5044d5872e714416675e824ee
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the intent is to trick users into believing there are new payment instructions, a common tactic in business email compromise attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/76312436288.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d32ee82eea9aac897aa4f2120d7d3d/59579547422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b0e84052c3bebd49e65e4c4a803d39/53190546277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/35959617811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87736128682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patulunide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/febakibevejubadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/80247083614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4e34a38bd---74826692869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f65253ec97---70549275905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f4259437---25576344921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68730035624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skincarebylaura.com/clients/862251/File/19509121210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46761202729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijipejodixidaxeropubexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a16272f047---pelaguvemusipewelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitutop.com/contents//files/muvidovorizexagudodulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec5b6de95c---63840330454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef898ce0fe---wawotofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2744c87be7097a049b57c6f4a286c2f/76034691053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/73382917462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1620879459846253002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/57703872653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459291a0c361abbc95dc335156fba0e8/xudurepetawofiranigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+paypal+cash+card+acceptedPDF 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_off0000f749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF749 17188 bytes
SHA-256: e215d33f88db64a3d404825a958f08fe2f3f270f8dcf5dcdcccaf8a02885079b
font_01_sfnt_off00012429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12429 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C40 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 37c72fec0f1f7472fe60f08c64d4370108f25b7128626066a4c96d762b3fcf8d