Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64d223428876f4d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:59:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 156fab7025b843b5fde9b46231408a6e SHA-1: d1880768de9a0790488c0c709b8d51e050091c95 SHA-256: 64d223428876f4d53a82af9d9fe49c8ed026b801c0eca6f315a7b5dcca8a4932
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other potentially malicious domains. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdbdcbb4a42---tofol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/75835476821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/72931044088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e320a49a80---wenametasemakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ce67357ac---mukunogoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cacd0cc2e26---17044532581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2r1v3hkjq18b4eh0o8lqjc7pl/zuvekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/36510007926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/31423157540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/gupamomitujogurife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/57528878768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/juzebededetomolawijavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk33sbameu4hc4sbso3q9vb68u/kapegibitutijuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/wunuwikodusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f96a579b8d63962521dd3e09c1ed606e/nabavumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/vigifanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/71576772042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fbdc7be89d4daad9e496d20f0aca778/pazadanejuxipamewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htsjnb917hq1kiocvpcl2os7nhtf5kuj/maketef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/17075747721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/70007041374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874dcb8d1620ddb981dd6fca72d571d0/murafugigidukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os6fov9dko31naub8r49tl5s5t/kirakesopelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/wunudovedanazuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/48635046814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+coal+house+pizza+point+pleasantPDF 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_off0000c9fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9FC 17508 bytes
SHA-256: cbd2d32683fa0c81a081abfc92732faf01d148845d0a8800250e1fd4505598c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF789 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA0 10496 bytes
SHA-256: d3ad8f64860ac3fbe097bb8912f41b70b41b799d335dc0cfd24551cccd624963