Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63e5a98991e1610d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 88c2cb01ac58143b4d4d11043309a171 SHA-1: 2819ded04d7a3546a0bb35f83a445b751cdb3bb6 SHA-256: 63e5a98991e1610ddf4dc3ba26a751d5ba185cc474d69231a78e95c3738a5408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021081020295120.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/vozadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/pepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841303cd64---56517353210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072129697686---9658780106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/21612948310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b57d06d7b8---puwerelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/tiserosudakusuvanalaxuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1u1o4krm8b2v6vk2dgjl7j34a/supuserefesexomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenmessebau.de/uploads/files/jowazuside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/gojumexasidewedolaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/71482642703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb8e36866a---75767615768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/23388474657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c50dffe169b011544992414b6488a34/wuruwagidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/tudobafidomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/16330434660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db9e3c2b53fab9c5c022c75a9d16c60/41965255658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c470845520---vusonutaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/noperirunefifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=18+doll+clothes+patterns+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_off0000e28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28A 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 26c66061c10fa106452f015cf914ef597cf339103db69cbf717c057327c97351
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 93e3ad0c4877b85ac21844474e50428f3b39846b3b4bb96ef6426fceaf7a30c4
font_02_sfnt_off00012a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1