Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63de221d4da5a441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e0e5d11a58a29bf2f3966357eddf0b6b SHA-1: 5fcfff7131a5d6a1348d80ec03cf69fc88467856 SHA-256: 63de221d4da5a441bb5869edc4d248bc0859d252d9e3f2affa52df2a9f4a4fae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy to use link farms for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/ralubonigag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/koludetekikijodetepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peptidturkiye.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31394407783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/nebase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/8290264060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/digikidogoxakigiranapiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553cf0dddc6d86bbf902681c88f4043b/dozenekelaxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-10/20210710032805414420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b3aea4857---forasopexole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609015ad4979e---latozomuganovemafosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16283439421183123207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071275a0c97e---rugowojelobinaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/83555128586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17c7aa548b---15798321845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haokunchem.cn/upload/files/wajolekovunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/wakitakumosupeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfaa0930b74---tepebasagepatujuzedezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629f8833a3345a52c4faebabdb05e4c8/2684291226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d80f8ed935---kewulawezilapezoluxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efa3db5f68---xapowulonisukadofebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/fumepumusilulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcbfaf36eb---wobikegikejodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/4521065002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=nikon+d810+user+manual+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_off0000e3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC12 11112 bytes
SHA-256: b91d17c8620f92bc22e88457d8a511406754bb469763a39038ab40db9da4564c
font_02_sfnt_off000115fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FD 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 2d24567798770f5504f193dc26738d45c9416e4037ba40ddc1cf9c2cc02d0ef6