Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6464efb9ae060661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:44:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef5c5fee96acb9b2e6f073de011dd3c4 SHA-1: 698b95618a36fdc7e33495e6fbdefd22d078a757 SHA-256: 6464efb9ae060661e0825b746064c85f5796fc617a083b4bd960a779433ceeea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wodebisepisib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0ca02cb89---46858244589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc3e27f884---fatagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac10cc8a47---39383085313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/zidarudabowoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bcac87ea30e305d431329a53094f026/56693275625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s56bbsjov8m9n2dobrg6uknuj/74713500778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/tazomokamezejitogukerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralwestwoodclassof1983.com/clients/c/cd/cd4b3c89dd1500142a52f05b9125c350/File/wusewisodadukapejetajazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/nasadisapavodefupeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/92396915511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894d9cebcba---83353733546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/geravokekuruwenivese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd12051701---gokowerijisetujukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/88231737816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b2d404749---biduguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047e3c46abe17fa00694f3d02037962f/32331744716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/51360674698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cbb09482805659eb520d5f1d23df4ce/67873552403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/55382027532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994e155d93d---tatuturotibirona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6771ddfde5---94138716771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a484dac34d---17116849399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/68518809607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/55302672884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=every+100+years+epidemicPDF 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_off0000fc0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC0F 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 723e8e181e01cb2620132ab3150f31d82201929c900664704862b5b2062cbde2
font_01_sfnt_off000128a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A0 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 352e2529dfb8aea4940adc7c8ccd2107e89834daca5ed66680b650a259810233
font_02_sfnt_off00014118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14118 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1