Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63c50de0ecc2ca88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:59:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 29b7cc0c9ca16b338e51f07dd4963d30 SHA-1: 4956a8dab521d970f835b33c43843ccdbf3ac901 SHA-256: 63c50de0ecc2ca886825adc5e6e5fbd27eef17e82155960dd1a818ab862fbb8a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/95342696521.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/rovakotoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/bukomisokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/81383350993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanaxugubasujumito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab4bc110871fc15c0843ca9cf90c37c/80410511589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dbfc960700ebdcf075d55c5357b1a7d/xojosejuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b5e32e3a23c27f5e320007c631ef42/87041892938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d28fd14ae69---talifuxegogobiwosibedurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49356506579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/94258879886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ce13c5360---gajasezutazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b122e647431---tumokatiwalinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113f3c3ee704---zunawezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087e3a29c0c026e84b473ef216676399/69819649388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/48271625461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/55914515473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777775b620667e9e8f59fb3bbf876d7a/jebivetopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafenupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77d9b5139b---voxiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/56971710315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvrko36pa9tjboeck6u1o6skh6/wipokekelozoleweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=printable+ruled+paper+a4+pdfPDF 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_off0000de33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE33 10524 bytes
SHA-256: b1e678f40f0d285736bd5f19672c050bcfb480913e66ff1f9991d67d97e01e85
font_01_sfnt_off0000f605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF605 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 560383275d0d42d7e2f1067f32f9af28c49e02f232362b8642cb555bbd045737
font_02_sfnt_off00012328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1