Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64b483d198200596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a014622688f52ccf671d6f5f403be866 SHA-1: acb44e44aff7911382890533d761b5e0ed6883f3 SHA-256: 64b483d19820059614ec61e0d9b1bcba210586a073e374ce706d2a9366425289
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/wijesujuxunit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071da112b6e3---28647512347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vs8c3f4b95kp4kkd1vn3gqj48/fegigekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4rlj2am5kucbvisd0nesm9jb3/95634576599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607851d5d70ae---63538007617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa8aecad0e4fb8705cf3d696eaa1122/22615782054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dock-levellers.com/upload/files/pamutanedexadelaragodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/vugumefasewimozelupexoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac59597aee7a5db8318506aa4552873/jowivikuluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/14118270518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085953a346a7---38650253526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/jepudipipusajupolojile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736231ecab7---zekagatanexefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de566c7896e02407cab44c713c5c2c89/bilozivadunomisezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tripiea1h771kfhqtvuo3snsm3/gugavinisazabamapodudujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/31444592399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8f40339d0---fixawojulebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/99488345415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76927a8955831fc795d444674141188b/mowomav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/81688547960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b538003da6---gototi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/82373395341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/75150224170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ababa+form+musicPDF 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_off000111f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F9 10336 bytes
SHA-256: caa0b6b4b497bff4dbe5c1fdd144c54f6dc4bbad6ca4fb6f3d89f54f136521b7
font_01_sfnt_off0001295d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295D 17440 bytes
SHA-256: e6d23beb93a5e43234c9e3edb2b77eb22c2f680b078319ed04e883277e48480c
font_02_sfnt_off00015671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15671 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1