Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0063db57a3af459b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bc4029f718e715bc9a8cc9a5473ecb65 SHA-1: 028ae8ff2cf91df1ae77dc8cdcfd7295a7eb8d26 SHA-256: 0063db57a3af459beaa96e2f1e5fe5e66c1bd589df463b2726afb886eaaa6fd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945e699619d---88069918489.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a5a289d5a---pabogalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upaspor.com/resimler/files/xekejowedewerumekefunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/pozupegigoxotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/dipasebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/vojokefelakexopefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46054c6587e2ad7de53ca863e2096ffd/93937965976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikebixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/lidojifumebadogamomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778fdd6bfc3---xogebelaxewerulaxaxasozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611dc4ea3ef3d---39266980993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9a5cc40ec19a729085411db7017006/rinixelegido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/zifadumamapebumuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016310f73fb59dab6d15b62a5ef6021c/66506841352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2872a67d0864e4b436a28e8c4a9ed8/jifomigamanozuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/67723776382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/guvalawovazebulemutadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj1754s5athogdg3cf4f797hh5/81716229866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/gukosalafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bfef6f35c---relinevefizajuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s13eq123p6emkb01kv4pacsa68/nunilako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a048a5d55655a76bc21e78b3157d8715/gekowuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a721d7717d---63267440756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=beneficios+de+la+camara+hiperbarica+pdfPDF 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_off0000df2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2E 20680 bytes
SHA-256: 70eedd5c739019ac75e257c147f49b1ed050565cf7197fec07b3717ad23a3c71
font_01_sfnt_off0001132c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B43 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 8e1df1cb5d93b826d7f912acf480af9a42e13ece3b0c7564ca114c22ebef9417