Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63344463e774e6e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 13:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b131242f8111ba60587ce23efeda7b1b SHA-1: 8ab38514b55e34cc1d7e57e76d6a089f9db1cff0 SHA-256: 63344463e774e6e10b11e03029bed3f33b4530850d4322bc340babb6a63e5bb9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to obfuscate the malicious intent or facilitate further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efdeebe98b---2055550634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae83ac26ba---tobobofomovijopeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sizaninoradaxuzozokupijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c874eefbb2d2bee41d7cf852b01fe3/wigexewadulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca43029980---totumabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/nuxifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/28961232808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15667336757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210629160847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d707a63d0---70973724602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/59613763457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210519111208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/59766870846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7bcjfgg8moff9b76iu7747423/5942834396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66829062949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/xajatunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/muvowojerorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/61987263062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234a6a809c---6610068701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/ladimusitulivazelojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/67759371890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96d7261038---22018519218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb2uugu9cb5it0vh8p3bev3gnv/bogidunirawibisinogivogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b898b222fcd---1778912155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=romy+wave+cover+believerPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFFC 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 540102533033772ce97a50496d45cb5049f5d9f7638cb46a85852fe2165281fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10765 1808 bytes
SHA-256: e0b75d8b475dae07cc5f3b4661f77da77a8ae15bb142a83064f3f29103128cc5
font_03_sfnt_off00010fda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDA 10472 bytes
SHA-256: cec8cb4aa882367da70531aca1b38abb8f22dd0f769f7156c7148ab267273ace
font_04_sfnt_off000127ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AB 18844 bytes
SHA-256: 1d3857757413fb908497b016ce28f770462e5ad17af166ccc62f5c935329c3ba