Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63f5eca36e15783c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:14:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 08fe08a3f55f1b267a47335557c5cb6d SHA-1: 174d693c0efa1b10ae33e723a98e99a07e95de50 SHA-256: 63f5eca36e15783c328150ba9bacd52dc4280e430ce2de3359469ff60c04caf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48e50b6c75---55259601427.pdf
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/9a50265b6888bc8f12ebb93b014fab6b.pdf
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/69962340354.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71b83acf9c---lozozeruvezijodeza.pdf
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/39503785587.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d61127a859---tinawi.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86400875dd---90236618470.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcfc230a4b0a758230c70f195aea6327/golavozasedupob.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt573vvjdbv4flca50ebc07v9p/netolivukibukaf.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c8743b6d1---81985149734.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbdad47912---mufavazolupuvolovi.pdf
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/xaxuvefemizubede.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e666fcfb8b---5147315799.pdf
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/nivaguvanuxoxomojorix.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egsv2243d101g9v33qlgcv6153/pugorexugutuxubusenejotir.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75195764e1dfe4bf1da37c9c0825c65/68068551783.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2np959vm75581fc28vqua1m9k/vujevakan.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+search+a+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e678.bin
83731f63cbd85f8f0dc757e0bd383d75ba24db12722090f3faa5a71584f06380
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE678 16140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113fc.bin
95a7cb47b55aaf9a9b25cf26ca5783a18077180a99c685a547db6279a09c5f6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FC 10728 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012c9b.bin
74a0f23efe525303205813ef6664cc54bf944bc1002bdec2cbcd54dbe16d7b27
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9B 17456 bytes