Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64cf4ae4b8737c2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5588a5969c6daee40da1c912b717cefe SHA-1: 48650655bc28b843a1fc3924e4dccb36ecd64cc3 SHA-256: 64cf4ae4b8737c2c83ddc435d26e944640a1bbecb3f6ca1a135894df549faf68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a spearphishing attachment as the initial access vector.

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 http://gtshotel.it/images/file/69888386022.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acc7a52da5---87295837419.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f092662c98e2bb967e40d78536dac1/87342336714.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd4fd20e4c---82263084683.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1d2b93292---vemodozenoxojubunavufo.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5479101abc00ec7ef863f74b836c32/lifomapomuwote.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssr0hbk3cdhsqd05pa56o8lfq5/9572055540.pdf
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/xatogudole.pdf
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/7128715673.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92462811fa9ad30c949bd12fe6b956cc/kupoxowutam.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804ef2bc5b9---67155319938.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4da95bdd8---buketira.pdf
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c7da6ba37de259f4421f3637ead766e/zibuwowisovovez.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f7742ee1---zesexuvikozifiludi.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c12bd3f90---xemotezotivetizu.pdf
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/66766103519.pdf
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd9vvpbus09f91475556b7ls52/zewunidaravuz.pdf
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6954048bc3---gowapuzuwipesapo.pdf
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/3983947069.pdf
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11ad423675aea09ed2f0ba742922d6f5/gudoguf.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607576bdf01e0---kalimugomiko.pdf
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61d6e2e3eca88e5be15df45f39c61ed/wijexesusu.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77453d1ceb---97010154341.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701b3eb1f0f---92953485979.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+candy+crush+unlimited+gold
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1a3.bin
01a360940d61cd7498b9e80985f7a3cc47ab5f2524571c7c9b63d2824afcca4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A3 24952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012778.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12778 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f8f.bin
e064bee442c4bdf6a0e5320f73280023bd60aab87a298d0c7fa0a2a48fb31523
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F8F 11260 bytes