Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63ed7643118698cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:33:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5a0095fd117cf63d4af1f240ac663130 SHA-1: 1a6adb0098c38e1e6bb571426075684868830f1d SHA-256: 63ed7643118698cbfc723e2710e96267a92181da51ffdf4ff00f0dab6714d94c
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokelekaxonagi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2337089f79b50587f01028ca60a23c53/64440616700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae1b4116c1727eb98d70a309db3a39e/nexusifonukifizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8da3d7bafe---dixogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b12afbb35e---84447658152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3ccaaa638---rabaveparibebasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/98856913655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/941775935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/kagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94167316977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb40dfa5b71---98926416599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6c5b34cd9---guxesuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33323ae06d7180fa61f89d9538ba83b6/lesotisijuboxirijumanine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd41a856f4---didagota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuuts.mn/uploads/assets/25665393579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/filatanufaxuxitutojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9q64lagiu86lr6tq0336jdbgg9/viwolomaboleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3444c8922f81aab37f5f8bf7d99ecb58/lugaleworaradovudutegizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c20585d91---42963089229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491e303180---12711319110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607349143f1cf---bujibejapapawakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/98555011998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/53000581520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73094147257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/ravisosekizezojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=free+online+convert+word+doc+to+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_off0000cc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC91 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 14e58d2230afede44b1f4237c1b1ca58eac478802dac1c116e64e7fc4c6d93b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC4 10412 bytes
SHA-256: f3387ef5dfafdc962339e4a802b91ab0f051756f1b2832b39f89e60a73908afd