Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63358fb70ac53b3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:17:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2d9feeb79f377406499fcd62341e5abc SHA-1: 191e8cb5373acf21a7c9f3e20d38b8a10f046e31 SHA-256: 63358fb70ac53b3f77777d49bf4ccd89a50627c46ab79f08358fdc467a733b55
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that lead to external resources, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download' call-to-action heuristic further suggests the file is designed to lure users into downloading further payloads or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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.
  • 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 http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/25947434368.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348b9ec7b7a---nosenured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigijuripegazowafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/63457133896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47796243313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210901141418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/24132152201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/93275271192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109070323466915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/29539046325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/moponisiwime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/dedofideverovulujiseros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/35155077355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/75779417686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/bazozukidijajawamojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/44242541834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/56163558298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67933200519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/nawepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvalemexiruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e08b096884---72857768844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde143bdcf128c1af58c72bfcecc0ad3/56106478962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23441492932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/93063241776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969a679852a82237e98fcae7509d863d/65608184327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/22741270933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c11c6a46c---noritunulusalilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+fifa+14+english+commentary+file+for+androidPDF 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_off0000da94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA94 17684 bytes
SHA-256: ed276044f0298933bbadec54081eb933b0f8be5a4e6a03bed49c836ea8b89b97
font_01_sfnt_off000108a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A6 11256 bytes
SHA-256: a732b6919995e763aefbf4519dfaa2b9672186ae1cdf184d77ce24039f17bfe8
font_02_sfnt_off000122ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1