Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64d7ba29a3b5606f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 63df6894a3bbd2ca50a5c77d719b2b00 SHA-1: b9523cd99f1e3bdc1946715c644fa440dbc8fe94 SHA-256: 64d7ba29a3b5606ffaa4efd7c7c6b058383bce32cbe5ac99d0aea6d2f7e2c2ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_URI' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF's primary function is to host and serve these malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tv+shows+yts PDF link annotation
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/52082349804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/84216475487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f73f5e65dfc0f6bd72d77f01390c9a9/lumawifurejitozoribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021972151474816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/18466541399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/kavipomeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casadko.fr/userfiles/file/90690828116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/zokozizumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///solaroseriwutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/16198076663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/80828173434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/dezowekutagijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66270784193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomdythai.com/userfiles/files/viguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/97392048515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floramarble.com/uploads/vomegarelavolizovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f857fa1546---16328140186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/dudiruvuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b95b3085addf876b933cff94d0d9c3a/21970410520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/93716951948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proallprint.com/userfiles/files/kamevuderowinatevisuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://police8coop.com/UserFiles/file/40998558394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekukixetofibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/84190461807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE372 9800 bytes
SHA-256: 593669a10f3158052f65255b0dc1944ef0caf2e9e0c4cad5463c4d4a2fceac91
font_01_sfnt_off0000f923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF923 18172 bytes
SHA-256: df08b7304e4fe4917806345a866107857b02ce274d6c1fdbf0c9c1e31b92d328
font_02_sfnt_off00012859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12859 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1