Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63ff940906064428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8c50de3412dff3c00ab988c5a666b667 SHA-1: 1adb9fc98c34df6748d5826422511908cc0bbe04 SHA-256: 63ff940906064428087895ba76cdb530e47f4b0533e91f4ca61121d46bd4cb39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=10+animals+that+lay+eggs PDF link annotation
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/38172367548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3a10a582b7c803204fbeeeca954143a/dimiwivixarudimadipejugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/32587827672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/48242124266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961f881d048---sofatugaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/136eaa95fbdeaf58aa6d958f4ae5fe0f/76603407567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d9af428607408063ba70e566adc477/24254931927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d7993411b---79194150422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o09iaq1sgvubke5qc6ot41jsnn/5295041612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607535687226c---80476141476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/12709765828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e4078713d---lidukavogegududiruxexepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706fbab75f3---85235794191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c796b0e1dbbd354501e9c57bf5e63913/kenofufopakafosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607269cc0798c---26849418977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c05a677457---35625892284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877800f0d80---xejadekojalekasujazudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506c1120fa---fadinudedojelozeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cf4466b24---20815255835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607decfbe97b8---xurixebupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/75077969798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/29198109997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jemubobigenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/87635197003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacd9af3e75---94818618865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10107 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 09a0c25b2c3bc3de5145ff3ef1c74eb286db44f44214fd0ff4470a525ae88dfd
font_02_sfnt_off000118d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D6 17760 bytes
SHA-256: c1d420d5201f09b206a723b211d751bb09681c28cdf9364e184204343a70de17
font_03_sfnt_off00014701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14701 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1a8eb0b9c23cf203c969b5d5d5631f8eb4ae760335902abb309347e0b2a7e8