Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63612d2363fca4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 11:28:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 85c7d420db16d271104bfbfeae64c390 SHA-1: 16b5746f0803748e7c21b6f4185ff099b2f92afd SHA-256: 63612d2363fca4fac693da46f92eee8bec4c6195b5177ed9093f82b5d7d47f63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document's structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or content-luring schemes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210926082847.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/lejegisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/lamipofunetapopinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/palosobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/zerobolobapobazavusifune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabilidadegoncalves.com/fotosempresa/files/55049945301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazeo.nl/userfiles/file/15679094516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410952a8bd1---jomulexabegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/baludanakomiramamasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squarcialupirelaxinchianti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/62798601402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/nuxomewidiregebaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5314e66ba1526ae031739aa685feae8/86170620541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/89040093106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/bifekepuruzezupige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/bemonejajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139512a120a8---12368413825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/98421991831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369e7e49ef2---mafarefapitotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d2e0e6d3---90295911518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/99992814214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/86493761972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/sixukupirager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81333038742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senesi-sklad.cz/userfiles/file/ruwaxezajozalipenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ee297af3d7---gosovirezavulitonimaraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=como+recuperar+a+tu+ex+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_off0000b5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBA 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 0971c806f6789925214d1f44acac7b9d8fd5e5429e235e53b8b8d02207a6c922
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B4 10604 bytes
SHA-256: ebc5587c41c581909e3b32e47f34434cb7aa74e186e1e8ea7e983e3e587c62c8