Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63132d3cef868024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 15:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 41a7eb7785f8942c95990f88a406f6f1 SHA-1: 47459ace880799498a1585d93f83edc35cc212c5 SHA-256: 63132d3cef868024f841aff3928e091674c12fc4fadcf3d78b20c01a9ce565f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'compromised CMS upload' heuristic indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent, possibly involving JavaScript execution within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+level+maths+pure+solution+bank PDF link annotation
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/7237938794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/65294407703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430c9217471---valofixuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/66149923931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/87640229253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b1079f116---pafevagebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/99315185074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24633188269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalihemp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baluroserapevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210929001201176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ad1b27f0b---57626317198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3863260c18e1ac442e7520899a1586a0/ziwizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/22767896383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/12268092160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/zudujovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/lujevafonutawewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkpstroitel.ru/upload/files/sotividomizivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/rosoxubokegazojiwamojemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/suwedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210920152231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagerunda.it/public/upload/file/77772040827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/lumufudomupawefefuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/63519400685.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_off0000bb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB85 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd018138c78a3a8df2b5ea5278737ea701a131cfaf4f92337afe4fd72b2cf42
font_01_sfnt_off0000eccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E3 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 999ade25b188c5f349bd123c938d5a6bce0af8337caae99d42a7e539ed1fecb7