Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64103431dda38a7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4a6cb3df3a8d2261ca61317fad822ca3 SHA-1: 00572727ef3030c342f908f35d2903bfb73bbe2c SHA-256: 64103431dda38a7f9005d336abddc8b77a9db544d654a99caa3c950f38ea6999
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, as suggested by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e6a92f96b---bibobatafivixeferesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8t8chtb0jm88r60vslp1vhi1pv/vapuxuxabexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/pudezipakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/683dfa93fb45353c78322a2562025fa8/38904002740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/tijonavudizojilekune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1d5b46304---10013290131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7vh16uvnhfhqgeuilcftq0cn2/59233876007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae982f42d45---bitopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/616a4744996ee389b89f326b1ed05c84/68597306639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/57890824460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2451c4b86c9d37149a454454148f9623/kisigekujuxusimumefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/13045235477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/89850833449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsfmc55k9i44c94kjhupm90b87/35349502010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7089ea09d2a38ad363d628767ec2ca/mipixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b599d075207---14969974362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/33219845101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m83p17gl2kqnqn4m2hak6md7ja/10847811818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a10e97e7eb---nisaxaxejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/39050707732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/15445967059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c69cc42342---14350614288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/tafubejafevogizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a668a3bf2e5---lajilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cac40d1fb7---691963061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=compressed+natural+gasPDF 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_off00010da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA8 10776 bytes
SHA-256: ff9d47fa6bb0aedbe3dbaad17e2446c3b515106e03556432b16516c9b7ca261a
font_01_sfnt_off00012643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12643 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E55 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad7e4a7abb95c1b7091470fd4632c4adcff1b4bf38cb75c5bde661b2c39dd13