Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffaae3bc8a4c5f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2c938f332c7a8787889be1cb98f4fcee SHA-1: cd59d4b816651eaccc5d6b8445e75e14ef6b266f SHA-256: ffaae3bc8a4c5f43bdbd2b0278d2fa234731c1bda25d339850a5717796961467
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a payment redirection lure, as indicated by the 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' heuristic. It also contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or link farms, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the lure pattern are strong indicators of a phishing or business email compromise attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://maturana.cl/upload/file/7165343972.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613536aa56767---tikazovigokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/nukojokegovudifinadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangyi-pump.com/uploads/file/140211467856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/mopavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/2021911954286794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/75412094441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sreekanakananda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/59525232858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6d9deeb0f---36088052064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/nuzamegerusejosefafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e81061cea4e6d1f32bdb0a93ede4df/xiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisugasikibubadakumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e190f6f42074e1da64af97728580f312/48567681053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/21816351081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/31544789091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pokiwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/99155213056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe9199922b---92323303961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/tirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/90426553653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d849da29f---6815594418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/domogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/68268143162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=top+streaming+sites+2020PDF 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_off0000df3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74E 17732 bytes
SHA-256: e2ec7b172f44bde6ea4ca61f198285ff1007375cf4c1154fbc5c7561a9957239
font_02_sfnt_off0001252f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 03410601d0564da55c0c3bb8b6da4c03225f6f80138017a4af94fb8f2ed13dba

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