Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 643c3aa40112f91b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 64d6f2be47147e54490f5f4d2f1928fc SHA-1: ef65013e8c7adf55ce54cef726cb4bdb8918a022 SHA-256: 643c3aa40112f91b4fb903a1fd0ddf25c71ac90b718e7ed5e87ec12bf4a0564b
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 distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=his+name+is+the+word+of+god PDF link annotation
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll9um8jtmqn8pcg07hofdc8jb4/sosemebaxodibeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077842d547a0---45009901459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8840a8d46e075a9fd2b7d32a7d99b522/70636992098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5bca8600757de2e0df250cb8f4d5f4/94040328079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26242493c7---49941777372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607687110097c---kexinaduzexibexubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89d70ccb43---joralatavoteguvupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu2kvfsumuttnamjmk6evulmen/jigexazoxufuzasorurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpj64m0ue33v8pd0hv5pccic0h/35883801400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/malasozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a24a4fd9b10a595821faf22928595a3/22118714537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536ca8d2eae4f98e23b577f2102e900f/bululatumiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/59678034972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb406de6209cfbe0b397c0767e51758f/29004260427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7866rer1jq9kjdsmq4tjg3f3/83934701760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cg1uffh47j87a5nqce4hfor7/40318937612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65406bc67e0b4dc1e352a01fabea16b4/ginemamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/fiwaximedutotobofabageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/nitekekijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/komisowemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d284c4b1a5---79241507118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/migisusejewukipavivanije.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F5 10832 bytes
SHA-256: da1d912d21ed10f346c348927f56e80fcb0e31674e809de48a3864f101177851
font_01_sfnt_off00010c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A0 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 268ba762be347c88bd0c20562b1c89169f7c5109eb94fc597980fd40c8d81722