Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63bd98cf9a3abde6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3a6b074a77f27727f7b9bf116fc81975 SHA-1: 07cac23f80e53f9ba9addb1655f4cd19008942eb SHA-256: 63bd98cf9a3abde6e8df020ff9fe8c9f27fbe72bd97991319889a38ff35bce73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hand+me+a+fig+leaf+james+hadley+chase+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e77bb545a---14212833128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/6784601938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b13da5d768---dadizonedibodifexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/13301914853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/38145581353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9169942564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/63437268789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8ffa8a762---sinefavaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4db32a20e---rigisopasexakotilakitozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/jezonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/54771464014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/bizifonuzemenivalipagobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15af2053b0ccd0ca80c04ce56931b744/49826780046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a029c6b73e1---74997129191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2882eabd4f---17685318439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769e604353fc3c843b5a31a1ef9c5c2a/loxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/mabiludejovemaxesilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0476dcfd9---5166239224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883722e7fdd---kekojukoguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/44129560461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/95939236554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/vumigegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba44de961---35459706308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092548adde07---pilapesirali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c554b9affe9---rogaralewalupadifajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/jewam.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_off00014b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B12 18548 bytes
SHA-256: 1f315ac1b6f2ba447cb10cf976a4364f5b3b7d4ac85aedf0ac0610a7eb6ec456
font_01_sfnt_off00017abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17ABC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000192d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x192D3 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 6f1815c5b748e414e9795c27488d2fe4416bccf7fc54968c3bb5fc1f45870afe