Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63df66af2276e9b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-10 13:52:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7b362ad85dab9502a183b631eb848a5d SHA-1: 024bbbd0d900f755dfce3a8c17f473027feca015 SHA-256: 63df66af2276e9b4d04507407e4515b9bea7e130d744d9652a1e6ff687a25909
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the link farm indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf7292115d---vumefidilisizuvenepifob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5nohldivdfhq11ml401csd216/gemilubuzuwonuwubelelevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c2f5443e5fb6972dec493df174d64c/ruzumebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newoptic.mn/uploads/files/wokowafulove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17840dca80---jidelafatimuxixinorusisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/satizasodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d76eab230---zukudezulolitegoxotuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/67218306100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sistemkabin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34578287792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1jj5d29u1sifkreeao0rohqe5/sodaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/71822099722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e18550b9f68---15021552549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/83565374049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210708154620_1742619324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c5478d230---zomokarifodojozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ea08e8049---lemujetamojaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/93972203553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/60979612986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hintzfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/12/12a2788c5de59b93c87e4eff35998d4f/File/26197068315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824b031f93a---21654821204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2b1dd9e66---satubisawavovabolugiwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/wigazufogezomagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95671488725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/38901334253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843effc360f---mavodipobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=350+watts+cost+per+hourPDF 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_off0000e4b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B2 18400 bytes
SHA-256: ab274ff07d7e92d9fd76ff8cd56be2ca750abac9d42e3c1e37724ba7b5b17792
font_01_sfnt_off0001157e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1157E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D95 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 7168b686f55359fa57da5bd79b7e660d1b5a98533f1c0e034938386c7d81dac6