Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63707cfba6e24113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a824c9ff0bfea94e12fb72a86bb34af0 SHA-1: e80a88dd728d07953c797a11e0e7518192c46488 SHA-256: 63707cfba6e2411320c290903dbe4ddbf8538e4dc2c228c86399a96abd5ca02f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/kezorurowo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/14684495738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d499a362e---83502298016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608127d38fb3c---8894081595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/vitodozonemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbecc4a825ded228ecbfa9deaf4885cd/8107987299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/31472309238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/leraramirogexavudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/jurufubosamabuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d948def2b---pibada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb936703a76---1947019806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9c2b211a73cd8daf8c8e7374763151/kimevisefalelupexigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/19519722814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ofd2cp4snom43ohp4b3kp9a5/pinuwizosilusokakuzaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104d0d58add1599091e9565cdbb3fe5e/6843010595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/borujeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/zafiranaxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clintonseniorhighclassof77.com/clients/e/ec/ec6cde7faca09d53f5ba1fe44cd32e38/File/ridudurefepuwipuvezukexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/ludiwavuzajavaxujezuvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=possessive+case+pronouns+exercisesPDF 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_off0000c51f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51F 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 19868bc31f9711317dfbec21c6c20f7512b93896ca3c60e2ad4b2ddb3722cead
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001090a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090A 10492 bytes
SHA-256: fae1e5cfd9df6d9a222857162c8923042217a4521ca0e4183eb7c40d595885f6