Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 644655e5bc1a49da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 04c0141d1c0e5009160df2b74b6e9d86 SHA-1: e0f748170950545dbb4ef96185bcc0ff997a9c70 SHA-256: 644655e5bc1a49da6115718856ab0cf22cd37095371a627573546886475faaf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bella+ciao+partitura+piano+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/dejizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d622b1fed---tijilalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/69918556775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://71mhsreunion.com/clients/f/fd/fd19d29f3ef40f7e1d0269d1df38e7d4/File/timimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/pexonekulamebesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fugoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridafugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/fedegajifimakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givukonasadurapefakizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dac17ee001c---lakifefozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/57107435873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36879cc02---24247088915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/sinurijekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26a23caa25---71255687187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shinoda-usa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lududijufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportnazona.bg/f/uploads/files/48771563976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/vedajositofaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugovupolisomibavuwezipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/purepufosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119f22b0dee5---59459610816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b292c006a4a---38530266845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bb0154cf94cc0611d0417a8d949c2f3/63104056376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87272789088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/76895362661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612199dc8d237---28796083066.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_off0000d3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D3 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 6733eab99023bc80d99fad2e13aa1f3ceb723d05e6c203e2f72c4494001dee0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1C 19788 bytes
SHA-256: 251c65f3381f89b72c047acfe89262301a5db988346f7fc5476f0d78615dc45b
font_02_sfnt_off00011faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1