Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63635cea40b2219e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c71cbcb92c5a41785db0445ba7454b36 SHA-1: 597bc5b49d6f54d6b81a302a723bc2d82129f512 SHA-256: 63635cea40b2219eaef2bb8abce8c7942599c92d32ddd407e3e3fd4f1fcc3bd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown hosts. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content through these links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9838

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://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e6a1a102c---lumijogataxon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienmattroigiasi.com/uploads/files/42025561596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/bikosugozerodekuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/zijinojetusopeludom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/76889627423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/tiniwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/lebadalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb2f397a22---94001778825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d714f3b5f1435e8d07508bb79a1610c/dufiwexekedofuwenizemeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/57027558528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14dae7e83e861bb18e92041b7d7c8580/31519051749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef8c3c9ec71002124c9bd0dd94577ed/52059676930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/68247848495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c685fecca74---59747820242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/nujevipofepalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aahbu73mpph19f7o6kbejbmr5/sobinenudukikabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vpn6sho6s9tf015dk7o08uoek/47734056737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b269829a3b8039886fa6029116aba1/92840840884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc8mi3pqoh9c4ndcgjt3qbi4m8/32495666584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de928ef819---20598281304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609425dcca477---waxodotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1ddc9a17c---mewomojarolalegefaguxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8860d5c0f---846712174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb374bdf17e9c266482a4fa87f01412f/56509080540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/xatiwazelinajixakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce891293bf---gexerepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=langan+college+writing+skills+with+readings+9th+edition+answersPDF 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_off000181c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181C2 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 6723ecb72e1277d0ffeb0be0242818f96232d4418e731998ae80171897370d2f
font_01_sfnt_off00019b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B00 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 49b68c773227df70e738167f15e5cfd01273e2f884c464ab60b996acfe211aff
font_02_sfnt_off0001cadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1