Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64bb08a2788da0f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 23:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7b25761c7e87da31635034f5a92fcfd2 SHA-1: be411d17025e3e162c8fb4aeec4e4eec1cac7083 SHA-256: 64bb08a2788da0f8c7d0dc3997d27405fb5a368a184df6146cb0038a31dcb961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve to distribute further malware or host phishing content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5231058873a1037f255c9ae04416a493/58388944505.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f439610a10ebf85d27d47e321588049/mudazodudazavepoleviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/megumibasarofopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7d88ed263---muvizipalivafipokexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c29f7c0be539fe4d02d6f0133826642/90140790027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0eabda52---71891833601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebemowafabigivevape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/mowolemawojuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2321b2afc---87376650515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717a326e6f7482d8e78a71b3d8bc8f5d/51259147190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/48966682113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb1787b144---lazajuroliteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/sexiwebesakotadivowomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072009dcf07f---punis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5278dd2d62---wesajageruxodozafiwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9f5b3e5294eb5237e031443be4d9db/19244544181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/dipafapadivazotupunufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47b09ac389---tuvebikafugimipebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6eb81f3e670f994546d7c2bc4b7edad/88226580910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/59723435561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4285fb54e0---mabusepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14837885db---buwovujoxelaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12007788677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18aa5170c4---tevugobulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pet+feeders+and+waterersPDF 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_off0000f6e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E6 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 89541d9c84c8522c9fbaa09e9839f9efe80688cf7b9ab354d4efcbb9ddb10f41
font_01_sfnt_off00010de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F8 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 2d7a8a31b06c992eed80190a16a1bc63bc065c8f96e2f547d4adac1fb77acdf6