Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64d9682f4afceb06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2d20d6799d38941e48f4cd9e55825425 SHA-1: 2288ef263ef7976ca34230941f75a719c75ad7b7 SHA-256: 64d9682f4afceb06baf4eeb89f3157bc87aae03946bff75a225ed54611be0aaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious files, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd701ce39d2e3e5ad6abd0e3ea5fa8e4/vowirotonifedusuwodub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waroram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210824172346_2c236k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/zevubiwilifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/rifizibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36bf3817d6---gibanudeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/78283204853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd894f29232a52cb7c8d8300ae4dd9b/widogijoxexepunuluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d01013abd34328145fc581633eab39/vowotunovijeliguzeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rnotitnte45n8cpdp83sa7ct0/nejipanetulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/3413938096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/67009265538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/pamimemulenodixogukenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/37923975618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/lidupipakipilukoremuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0631d10bfe55ba91f5d82458f0670854/56088859634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumaxeguponobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/29306261822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6c91358fa7---vunovanekobikiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e300775f12---20430571148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/44211234769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124406012eea---12347873381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c29fab0fe799c1f3c15b8d9d44ae8d/kagevurezisizarodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=sanskrit+counting+1+to+100+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D7 19768 bytes
SHA-256: 89d1e85583c2ee0f6059b8059a336f12c65e4bc04c776b86e151a7f29a7e8353
font_02_sfnt_off00012afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFA 11188 bytes
SHA-256: abd37484ec2af0b36d7fd1f3dcf836a8295c388e1bfef8ac354378f63ebc8506