Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63964c3f20fdeddc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bcf3e62f7d9e4ae7e175b614460786b3 SHA-1: 70a40fca2e1ec4e8cd468f2885d953f1ec4000b2 SHA-256: 63964c3f20fdeddc46779fa2873614e6436b3012c50d79829798b31fefc4f9d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's structure and link farm indicate an effort to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/54080435426.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1afac8d2488baddab8264dee55dd45c6/89321729922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepjunk12.hu/uploads/files/kuxuzugogotudidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a851c75d6---totowaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/sopavejobasufazikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/xujuvomoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dcb2629e308d5680b932136cecda99a/julatixojulusemubugebidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820610ba6a0---52443009832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47f9ff1401---2796310989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagofixonalikebobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9446b92d5---36046681024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/80493320759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b862d93ca---mopav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn6baj17cfocqqi1767k4tpdn1/zosoremekubovifasutive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2c940b8e5---62205030398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50b78941f68fd1216906662c5cad376/jovikasexuvofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c411af156a5655c9b4ebdae1cc2479/71089893883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benovibumozobexabuvexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/difinirezikupegelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082520bb0fde---lofusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/xalelajise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c950a90a05b---mefupezube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fdaabd1d041078581af1b8ad743bcc8/jidoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=stages+of+group+formation+pptPDF 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_off0000c9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE203 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 3c318d959b04a268e1d45e6f165d88eee8bc8ee11ca7f52a00ae38f0cf43abd3
font_02_sfnt_off00010c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C76 10832 bytes
SHA-256: e499c875bd6ba75167dd98a5c759c28cff5ef6cddaedfcad1d891b3880865965