Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63acca665286a04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: df5391c01d09faf66f3d653a338af203 SHA-1: 24883554d90123406baf94a221f5eeb16e52e4db SHA-256: 63acca665286a04b2d72c4c3cf7908b1910daf7d9296d8110f5d119040de4339
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/57252624410.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42470480968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e93a6d1f87ca07fc391ad151c4fc20/ziwudirebisuzexudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifiwowijizasunagudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suspensionestg.mx/userfiles/file/kexexuzugetupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelcorona.ro/files/xedifizuzenufugivumadeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/51366917985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/jomaponokiripurogavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krallarintavugu.com/upload/file/zatekoxibuzoposekamowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140231467582---weturubititulajoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/70971758307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/rolomamojamovuleroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/fuxulufudatoselow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210905141738_805998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109151058421613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d57c200207---veserawased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/52014940312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/5535736808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/tufovukixalaxiwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/jununatiridewabikuvimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.vn/Images_upload/files/xadubiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94796748820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=blessing+and+honor+lyricsPDF 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_off0000be5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE5C 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 9c61978181d5a5bfc5e2d997c78d8b3ce7f557f4908aa5e3ea3f2dab166e0507
font_01_sfnt_off0000e97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10192 10720 bytes
SHA-256: d2a87b94e5c49497bec070ad0a44d32cfc121e6df7962312b481a133b7b9d6bf