Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd5131970a78a8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a41b370353a9fcf0bdee697b64b090c5 SHA-1: b09de3428209a6d9a83b8f91204e91129f2f5c76 SHA-256: fcd5131970a78a8cc9b464df233f017f256ed32d576ed681ac70ed90257fe9ee
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, for being malicious. The 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into believing there are new or changed payment instructions. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae24b43a072eabd542f78b62cbf1562/93997760750.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/bogavezulasodejifatopoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8665e24aa1576dc06f5fd4ccc669f9ee/24184095781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161280277b3121---miwotaxikafepapofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29136f91902c4503a0c49b0cb53497c/8016185122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/2142662491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8273a86aca---boxupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a678c1942ff75dee3c595fdee572897d/74555976950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/tojenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf5q4860uoblkrirbq3ragotl/7215266754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metal-et-verre.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38836637160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/vizasirafavumetatefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/1245119410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/36087597052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210703153113685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/vevisifakokibawofaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fko9l6fs4007jb9bks117n2mtb/85757435348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/37796611258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982df0d752c---14679306431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de22b20be5b---25758468860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidigopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/vakuvomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/juximudufekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9084ff08493625c56b0cc3f7479bfcf0/kumopezajiwagesojemonejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06a352c82d---9503633636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=data+theft+includesPDF 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_off0000dbe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE3 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 5e619ec115caa5888297c4443e8ce760eb1950e410db20306cb18cd56787d74f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF388 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6ede27434b98f67b0448d6c276972fe90c7e0e4efa30c7a3542243a5cbfcc6
font_02_sfnt_off0001206f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1