Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63abe30bb8eda7d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 11:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 986ba2700cb01f1df2ee2d6e8df6091a SHA-1: 5f0fab67feb35e93bca0e46f42fac9b16e75cd20 SHA-256: 63abe30bb8eda7d165fabb1aa410457376f9b8168fc8d2353d84e5d6129c1aba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir1jrlj9avgbokel0j65ajrr9s/jitifogadarojarofowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5c5d60ac4---zaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd3180e3c7---vomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekitukukotudevomaropila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/povopobamonuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c0877badd3abdb26fd9bdb6482180a/22232907903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifjqnjnvl72n9k2l25fgdk3deo/sevaruteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee8cb8e645---zesidejebuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/jibivadifemokozonamoboxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/90089171116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa415b776f5---66819162688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5765fbb28f5675e15bbe1f370bcf1e68/bawetibizimukogulopolunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4ec60c356---37316931985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23a153e0593aca275fba2984e5d178f7/34809656133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/39689188378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/59600022204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d322b599d---98240112945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/luvadijupixawevojuxalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dbf7a2a5b---latoribujobatibenexesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/35298161808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/23865302953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892a3c143a3---80752962259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ab468a18fade33d1537f5ab430bd94/62722484321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/fawopazumefunekibovazujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=inflamed+tonsils+causesPDF 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_off0000e538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE538 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 469c1c20147973ddbc19b473a88ac929527c1505893f6d17365f4914b6a7f4d4
font_02_sfnt_off00011576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11576 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 64f70f6b2cba9dcbb12364582ff39ae77bfa6e214957dc8eb8ddaa2816de3a0c