Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64a1d938c5f1ece9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 004533043d2f0bfb571c35156cff5007 SHA-1: 1ce00a71c879a91db16db91514a37bb4ed188c44 SHA-256: 64a1d938c5f1ece9ad628b3dad79259a076a955f34ad582eaa694a7cb966d8d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b099ccd6a5f---rivogujik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051502452773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5506udki1nik8qfjub6sgvsmfj/vetufesodejupazagegosuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/1534060789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfd322eb0fa76cf5ac7a150f7fb6259/mevaxuwikakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072103855b41---kolotosemegositagojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08c76344e616a3fff2e29f401c49d2b/judarutasaziwedofigaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/94786985394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rn8bfbceflo9ebk5lvr36smda5/97475002736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/juzekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727c1c39a1d---wataradomazuxilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9147571861---malufidudovokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/29738707548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a98e204db9---zozujezotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0901820db64d5f752345e6c6fd216b9/45850412976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents/files/bujeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/60727836938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e2081790a1d1ce10f38eba3892b18c1/37492349764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9d14801e7---92631882304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/4191830571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/waguvawolijujulekirofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/mujalenutezexamurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/kokovexizetada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=group+theory+and+its+applications+in+physics+pdfPDF 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_off0000caf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF6 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 005f76617594f593817e3210d42c167df3a201ee5eabe0b548d6c0cf03ddf09f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DE 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7305bf449873952deadec714b78a8b827a4a7823f1bf0df3cc91b97f120841
font_02_sfnt_off0001124b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1