Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63b8fea4ce385312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:21:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 105ad34cd0c80e2ca2845b5ac49ec209 SHA-1: eee25840be86b809233103be8cf7b97871caf46b SHA-256: 63b8fea4ce385312fdb53278710a9d85db8939178a697ef1af458164a9d237fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to lure users into visiting potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cto+chief+technical+officer
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb4898fe1---51417081238.pdf
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/82385196804.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3ba9067e8d470ceede3794d5c51833/2719962047.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c950da640b---lapirejupolumazadurexowut.pdf
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv9s9u94304j2bbjihsq3l15sg/43987347199.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615df67faab5ce05472e55536a76c510/namifadupajof.pdf
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/12998498172.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/77323776401.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/37410523817.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3969c0a834619a4ba54ce4a55a6d50b3/gigazi.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7tteshcqoug9k603c1ga8oia/fadekoxinepuvoxofokutebaf.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek7ksbe4sa0lqpdbovl0vo7g1p/43800011993.pdf
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/881b4cc40b709c66e39f422e9d3018cf/85457849904.pdf
    • http://parishad1925.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotopilekusi.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff22269d1---suleraxijitabisinul.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097001b80bb1---53690895466.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948f0135a9f---tunebule.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/39011879304.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051527f8bb689ff4245d60d7c91f1f68/bubisepibuwukazapifuxuxe.pdf
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/22092107166.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8098b1324---vutotavagazanaliw.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00654a90b6---63226562376.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080da465dbd2---37105039533.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a131b515765---87553799101.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105ba.bin
3d252464477d4dce5bce7b0b383f42f59aa4627d63afd4c95247e896ed072751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BA 29456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014098.bin
1e16b74afaf946a003d8195b7bf98be7321b946543c69e885377c90f73a610b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14098 10296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000157b9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157B9 16792 bytes