Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63d468bd30bb6670…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5d0aa81e328d9d1b689cf32fb4af3ae6 SHA-1: d85f907ee8f36cc24ff30ae3b2f1c9f1c241378d SHA-256: 63d468bd30bb6670fb51e517cd5b6ec523acd019fde440a3979e20475688aace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content, likely through a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3t4gjg7hkjnt2ud1qmeicvpvil/riget.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/30261552125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5dfac97711---51319719568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2858440621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922e6d00cbb---19398399409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/96826923109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4f1770630---25390344434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/45553669787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitmet.slektenkaas.com/bilder/file/61044999302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61763883580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b18cf2f678879b52b578b14bfd0b4e3/sifimifexukotolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceaa377f41---ditokujokesegukikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d0dea90e---xesumeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttkev936om5lv1i6k5fgkvgab4/zafunexeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/10577077875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/59180793242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a7070bf4641750d9ea4ce20e5380c7c/limusegebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/99479860583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/mezeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=a+manual+for+living+epictetus+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF259 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 333226d4b31533bb44879553b050bcc22356fb22ad9ec591a2dbb8f25999e1c0
font_01_sfnt_off00010c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12477 19176 bytes
SHA-256: 4a1745d2630f140dd02ad8c6ff287af075ed47e6bff40a30e266feecd726518f