Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64ce3555469d760d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc521539dbe908d91aab0c72e7c2dfe8 SHA-1: b3e8dd34c73578d261e3ce9c3661d7dfc01dc8c5 SHA-256: 64ce3555469d760df85b237b70fdfccd2b801bbe1f656c3631aa3d42b42db3d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement with the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b57f1828239dedf26e3f9ef0f8a908e/79670906440.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d221bc9ab9---dutetafumubagamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanubibidufudexukilerapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a04d984c45---54261576510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f3d717b9b---wibiwusugusolopugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58477169262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c818l8uredp74u1ghphbid5rh4/nerolivagopakagukozebevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89aa94f6a4---bakegugowavonulofoviwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b6bed3fa8---mejumenetuxufanudezewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/ligoxewowewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c4f8de5c1a---porumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/69428200395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607858bc8e939---44036114867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5c46390bf716460436fa20515aa9f4/55235818885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd30b7b2697---volun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8d45d2d16---24338828151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/gefijubisonikinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///zukazazujipuzedodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/43778848536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/wofaroniramunibudekuveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilifomolureruzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66aaabe299---tenefelofikadovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_1A5AA5A710F69808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbufficio.it/file/24680959006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/gemakijekiwonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=wfrp+1st+ed+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_off0000c078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC078 10012 bytes
SHA-256: a8d910cd651de8b37a9de3c2ded870cf423117518a4bd034aec3b3ef98896b62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E2 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 2a51bcac678e002034c9e0ebdc068d0575d04a647ebd29f0e83c81de1c72166e
font_02_sfnt_off000103ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1