Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 463b8bd7a8a670d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-31 00:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 04c9b1dbf58d0baed12a8f0156aa8c12 SHA-1: b184355c0531b351729bc43e36e0b06908e0bec2 SHA-256: 463b8bd7a8a670d66b0790322b0caa704501bef6a5e0106b3c675059bf5f4b9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a link farm on disposable hosting designed to evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/bavitimuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108291355209293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f98df72997a91193107f3eba756b181/xebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/nodewobanewafejemepoguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/21148328957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827b72d1bdf---42209973805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huulf7g8dki9m8um2afekvnr44/99656450912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/45902993256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897cf07d782---87469630341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1187b1ad8---lomaxixofusubukalane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e21472942e65a41db69a22e42b48b6/gomizepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/93943639324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/68273579732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/1365847183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandparkoptimum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobinujawaxekimapezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/zujikejobupugilufexomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/47331886462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0e83a61e6---69968740622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/73063108764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce92bd8dc6---kewekaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auhcjkiaumhr6ig7mlbifpc74i/50253464230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/69318677105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/54646967630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/24826387780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/96680202101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=distinguish+between+primary+and+secondary+memoryPDF 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_off0000d275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD275 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 351e40101e1dd45a6f8eca0db9aab32dd4c9926358881b00006eb5bb501f57a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11577 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 7f80c3a81448f0a03d51dd372c35e50c7031513577c7df9204fdc762f9a56ea8