Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649379cf330ed10b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c17ffb85cebc5731a24aec62eb334866 SHA-1: 568a21e492de1a2e7f233889bf9f9d7a7f4c0958 SHA-256: 649379cf330ed10b95bf34c0f46019ecf13b469241e6abfe8115e18c6cf3ec40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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 http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ed371646---9960272604.pdf
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/91498015550.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84fc39acd3---93125802023.pdf
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/mofil.pdf
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/toberiveledut.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7118f1506d---topogif.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b61310c94---68495230665.pdf
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejitadelivove.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476225ec4abb76a6a139bcf57f828074/80227022487.pdf
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/77003097326.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5dp4v7nvolp8o6behpbtbb93/wogawosefor.pdf
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/42082372366.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47aee2eb9f096ef88fb96fd66e504218/24408282914.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edad45f1b69c8def8b24f5900e11af65/28116036798.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ed3ec8d00d83e429449d38a5ed5539/35857855193.pdf
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/ritukodukag.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/83354162711.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce20cf5e7f6---45146235061.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36f5c05313---13895350838.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a344c600711---pakovolalabowinodibuxal.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f2d8a16dd---60353707067.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607882d5d3615---15945058689.pdf
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/27671289543.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=equation+of+a+plane+through+a+point+and+perpendicular+to+a+vector
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a6f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014281.bin
292d47940d564341e8c5ccaf182ff8641f7021bbc4dc19096f732d1d6bc53820
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14281 17352 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017055.bin
766fae96eeef36f2a413d5a32d265234c692ce71ecebd3de4ed392e1223593d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17055 11028 bytes