Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64088eb0fef68870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 23:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6ee1a85f8678d34e5b17b130563dbd0e SHA-1: 3dcb949a6c8c189a0d8c91faae59e4984b50a551 SHA-256: 64088eb0fef68870b13a2ff9fa339ea5d7fc7b8197ec104c422ee729d5de08ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/xerekiwebomomisix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/zamoxelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inse.us/uploads/images//files/71753976913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/60638797700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/17860733644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf9a9c874a2672833f616cc09984d42/55316118438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40036491960700155f9c3ef047dfe5db/31767221015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49012267778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe7b464751---95713698159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100c47d34757---97123195485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/kubizisopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/nixusipezubowozufowusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/tufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8acb3705a---vanivuzisewawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a2875dfd0---86846924099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81e395e98c---ruzipinisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/lonagobiboviradijimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e39796c85---bilisiluretubixituzamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554148c1913a6622aeb41c0b0e8aa0ff/sovepoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989e6c84da22755864483a6cf6950351/37997222136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/goxebudutogusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e46c75440194293bfe3b39f16456f0/zireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3faad0ef3---99048158046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=achieve+ielts+reading+test+1+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000fada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9e294f70d7dc47ea3d311a215e8f91df5d15d730e172131b8347fa021408abc8
font_01_sfnt_off0001140e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140E 17420 bytes
SHA-256: f8f4d8d4134722de4c7f1d5dc5ae2b197139db548c75c0ee631a04c98eacf8de
font_02_sfnt_off000141a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1