Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b7d09c645b4885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 169030b83c209faec20368e5e3d69181 SHA-1: fed977bd570368f5947bec1358131a930f51dcba SHA-256: e9b7d09c645b488538bcb2f434ba2a5e12f7d55b4014c78a79d4a07d3b23ffcf
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised domains or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure' heuristic further supports the assessment of a financial fraud or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43245003253.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/61881481120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/jemibupusegamekovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/71777922967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfaegaianascente.pt/portal/userfiles/files/94108730157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/88435389639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613994f4494e5---15293334143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nukoxirowewukebafitizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210913130510_wlkx7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/dekupimivikak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/19281058634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flathead.herosuite.com/userfiles/file/95964289083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/datoxefupotixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/82083095650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/94351765390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrigantina.com/025-CEB/images-editor/file/78694783491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/80048012842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/70153065022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61ee6c55a6cf13dec8bd8bcd93a6bb0/jixelosexipikiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/63233949298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/rivukidalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/difivunasisofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1630938948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f996524e08---delefamavezilosakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=webmoney+android+4pdaPDF 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_off000169bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169BD 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 94d3e441f07a777d281b9226fe714b1db3e1caacb67e426016a871293ec73d89
font_01_sfnt_off00018197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18197 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 64dab09ce930b82d6dbf49a78d3bbbb9f1ade0b0bf0feaf31b257c77ce600aea
font_02_sfnt_off0001b3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B3B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1