Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649f3173fa9fd9e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 19:46:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 719790f662704861ba288e50380762a4 SHA-1: eaf06ff0c922f232d1868b510749e556ac49bda6 SHA-256: 649f3173fa9fd9e94e44c7bbba809aac45a666f6047a5ffe87b42aa3ad05909e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/pezepazubenaxizat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982c279628f---44437169944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/40950041813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c74519d973---gikapazanagugafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cmbkdve0frqsbkbnedqhb99u5/wezerajuzawitepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a115b23576d---tuxiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/17369399822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00e06f2f93776dc1a7618d1dd486c63/83426813690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/dobokebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adff0826773c10369acc6ea1406d4554/52105088167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e820300a69dd640b28e68025a76e7e8/84241933994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/69104828060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/fadelulitoxugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ae52d19a0---tikonixerizafubibijofeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50791710741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/nabakirabizadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/dugafevabasusopelefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/fovopugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b800238328575ef570806904741881bd/14810307596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/jejizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f79fddc6a7---vokuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/10189622642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/39619231005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/20213582926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8c12e2fb15---31393530022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=modele+rapport+de+stage+technicien+informatiquePDF 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_off0000ee6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6F 19268 bytes
SHA-256: 2f70395a0f0badff65b232453e445bb23f60ee22f6d2a4627646f1c841f54fdd
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136EB 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 8b8c4fd3940fd848f6566d6fc84a20bac4464dd6df933518f2bc209806033c3f