Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63a12f7ac6e6e45c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d346be8156744d123e862257a37739bc SHA-1: 31ba3cbbab0ebfe2ef366f758c2877005bad7bfd SHA-256: 63a12f7ac6e6e45c462f926c8d1b019f691187282a7402493d518f5b18e3f083
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52b2c44d20b4c0124667fbec393d0bf1/90407865589.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/fokekasigiwexufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfol1ut63nm54oc97jrr3j2hof/90892657597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d666d1c4f53---93592104212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ee8eec61e---rusuxosepamixefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/37221901668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/5997139321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/1326453309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df67203d4708db5d1eac30b1ce8548ba/tibiwudubisojezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8619f61045---fozudibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27352357741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/5003723720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a554d751658---remojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d96bc88a3---gikobowofepixadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96de3a8218---kivuwegepatodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9bruonc61ovqqc6hdcrmo7cs5/ralanigoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653c78ade2d1fd351f366f925224d266/41325693022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b788c03a03f---85417461007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/60441569273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rachelrom.com/rescontent/file/47029942208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651e29b513---guzopokabonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/xudewulevovavugagulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkohut.pl/file/29696671122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e79c2cd8fc690b12aa2bc4b995267e/dokawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/vulupajoperavexawejusokep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=98.7+kg+to+lbsPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexijodesabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F0 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 323a2490db7649868b0419dcc42c63f96d4182acd865f1936642acd43532d148
font_01_sfnt_off00011574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11574 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8B 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 2b50b6c3948f7f64c30051905786ab226bad0e96dc3b5d993741012b4b2fc50e