Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64815b1cec8029c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-05-25 15:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e32abefd65e9e9e418fe5383ffe9c74c SHA-1: a74d7e067756bd91056578cdafee328156a9ea79 SHA-256: 64815b1cec8029c96d473695ea54662ce46ccfa762940edb815251ecbdc42221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7939

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 https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a91f894f7---95179092718.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ed99a2331---68625146178.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea041f035dda2b087e9bb7b3d3929f47/limukibulejozo.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcf6f8c982---gujajaronu.pdf
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/71954827909.pdf
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954b4267fa7f5c6d5bea9512772aecc7/jinitimuxeruwene.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb4e612884---45442394238.pdf
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16213851531244743065.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk0u36abbe789189gu1ku6o49b/zulinasufe.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f8d906a8f---69629473915.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i28hbsanmb838ijmnjgafh6nd2/23912504858.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe948f6ed789c6459982ef3649e839ec/53578879421.pdf
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf87ijnpsbc8mfd3bham2bvm3m/71352495521.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f90d76fe6---46398643217.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94f2c167ecb7ed999e58d576ab4b0e7/bitinotilov.pdf
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/50647150488.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohit
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=maths+logic+questions+and+answers+in+hindi
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9e8.bin
22075b00f36ed37beb7c3949554abda29cd3501559122132b95d5f9b34f4d09a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E8 3672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6fb.bin
77217227d89e305862ff676d8bfbbc99476aa6362dfed2892922312f75979095
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FB 5424 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001097c.bin
25a8b9df300691d57056f8eecbf1cce7467bf98d411e1eb76f231b843d31c2b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097C 11224 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012fe2.bin
ab1083d2be285fe2d56213ae92e9118e3868b362201bd2da2a849c5973dcc78c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE2 16104 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off000144f3.bin
a0cd0ba594d8ccaaf62066a0b2ca9a239ee470d466dc532b33215bcaa6cd994d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144F3 3580 bytes