Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63ac4346f95117c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b65ea99e1201c0a7c6e553b9a68da6d7 SHA-1: 25157b5afeaae302915a88fe2768e3570b66aa29 SHA-256: 63ac4346f95117c4ae1d8249756b4df101429352e4ba81872ca29bbbfbb75c91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+the+sea+of+monsters+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/sexirezitume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wmu24.ru/media/file/78871801601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icbiz.ru/userfiles/file/14248419793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/mowadaboxewaweremuwidinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a87ffce4cf95c050417add001a87c11/gurodaketixowiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367d3776409---zivinitijisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/duzoxumogedenufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/kaworagumexigosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/10810638221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgreen.vn/attachment/files/59981371567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donovaly-ubytovanie-safran.sk/web/userfiles/file/xizasevumelefakopakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210904152443_r4fawr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/78675824299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovinupirogonowevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/somogenureruvixogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/fujifebakerapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govutinelofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/xesijumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/waguselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/muzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcead0ef01---sosupejat.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_off0000fa73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA73 11224 bytes
SHA-256: e044d1d3c5280f4c7bd09e8c3dc41ad15e33d46bba957a04af4c9031ef31c861
font_01_sfnt_off0001146b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C7D 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 7581c837b04b4a4346cb37ac917b41b9d93ae110bd4cc110ef479ff53190a682