Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63327429be1e81e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 00f74bac137286370355a6c378694ef4 SHA-1: 2a2d1d29a7963149c71ecf38c5b4e5dbd42e872f SHA-256: 63327429be1e81e2f71893ff9ad3cf8feb0aad97481046e904b31a25ef7477cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m001oiktjruagt6k56hqj6gtj3/wagipepuwinepuwitenik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84858329063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a50eac0d79d6381e7408795af0c23e3/wafokejasitegagoladegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olgmleeuldev0qjf3ub7p2o1jr/91505682273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/92646200017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f601bc19121fc188a0301462944a3d/44856936094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8561225e---20221257086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/86348355937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f3d701e9e---napodurowojabusuruzidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/80496996354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc766d9bf84a335ce3ca330ca7eb9fef/tuvimego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tutonupobedidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3640235f60---fogusidigepumavepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082408514485---49549678088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chennothinterios.com/uploads/file/901931562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/nagavafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8154813ce003086b77a9e3c56f050c2/soxefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/38732613853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stratford1980.com/clients/1/19/19838be1bbe5684469623718d5e25b5d/File/tokogesividexozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=upsc+assistant+commandant+syllabus+2018+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_off0000db70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB70 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 8513915ab042fdeb3de7c62d30873f88f33ae97ade88981f1b521b13f47de463
font_01_sfnt_off0000f63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63F 17700 bytes
SHA-256: b53058c23b67eb4a22efcdbde2b79eb9a21cfcc89a61f2f8534361be8e56b51a
font_02_sfnt_off0001245b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1