Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6c9acebb78daba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5d25c99bd368f1d59cb38250b0cffef8 SHA-1: 966da44ea97b68a1409ce6062a02005dc77b3c20 SHA-256: ef6c9acebb78dabab2573419595137867dd69e3994ef17c6d36f063ad42a5e9d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to various external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly suggests the intent is to trick users into believing there are new or changed payment instructions, a common tactic in business email compromise scams. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/27326862792.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/zejovijowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nodudoliluzafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2107eb6e92a1788a1735259254d313af/61218844214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/91879790861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/48434348717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1gd5ibot6969ohfiuls0qpg21/56921865143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezamirekhaseafoods.com/userfiles/file/24028450858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/xinekemenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/sutigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/zovimegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74486505930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/refij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/22292230909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiannweb.com/uploads/files/vuviwifozosexosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/64654480121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/nesixipulologada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c167d9d5e---44502120426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/daparedorafuvojorepenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaitofu.com/image/upload/File/16919409763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/22498666295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27264416357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/39990569836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=locker+codes+2k+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_off0000ecd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E8 10476 bytes
SHA-256: a42fb8b975afe75dadfbf833c680e02c66da3e670e4e50174dab590ee90a52e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB5 19176 bytes
SHA-256: ff26d63d731c7022f393810ea1a365e586cda19fa0be903fab27e4d0ab41c480