Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f13067ad34f21eca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:22:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ced0e7c84ae535195e5fb5f26f7380be SHA-1: ff551197b865350a0dfa4cda3802124313a59e1b SHA-256: f13067ad34f21eca141c9ced1bcb1a2928e97a6abe55b72dc5b5824b69484655
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to trick users into believing there are new or changed payment instructions, a common tactic in business email compromise attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheapest+careers+that+pay+well PDF link annotation
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/59706317780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb27125a79d321e4212464b290b7cc1/28381897282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427397140828311b70b8edb5184a6267/metimopopixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fartqiai9a6hb4c0i5ephereri/didexiratokemawifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/likesasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebf013b63d---83506906858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/12117286177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d442aa812f1215af018c91efc02cfc/guzawoxusarubofebedemezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7939b5cd1e---ranutozuroves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/xonebamoburejujede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078074835158---vepuxefali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/gerevakokelogofepejixazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur28av9dij0aarfd6nk2gj9r4v/juvedulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/93780573919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6bbeae396---65647098052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a9cf300e---zuliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvoctgrofin3s1cgh73f8trto0/613945580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/tupexametimopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c8a51fd10cdfc7175b517edd8b4314/pigibena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dirb10q5ed9t11m5mkhi2e8b4/58797914790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a437ad41be4---xipunopobirupajubupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bcb836082---66505909915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/nejugogokemuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/delulituxigujegapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bf27410a7---13454641645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10903 17264 bytes
SHA-256: acdb2ef2a59d1379aae2b494349b4de4f79a557c5df2bc765015343b21df84dc
font_01_sfnt_off000135eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E02 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 7fafe7b7b9f5c0425aa5ae1a84caf357302f3fa36b840f387f5e480bd7c5fb1d