Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64da86a10e9c2970…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4bcef13a9a1dea7332a77b4b2cde6bb3 SHA-1: 24c95ed7f097a22af161cd7e986b6a0afae50040 SHA-256: 64da86a10e9c2970262f8fb0d91e361ce1e6b513b485dc09a4056271dcbf121e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a malicious document, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ebooksweb.net/files/file/viranupura.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/kugexovatebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcb62d6a72---14867765139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ba3308e3c---66826273097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbf1966240---xowibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/guwogonukuvajala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvqa0tv2bvvgsqbsbjvjfki7nl/76822596844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a87f2871c---muzila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec73c51dcd25a16b0fc9acdbdee6840/goxaselunotuwurubexaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb921b1f524---69668758023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oia6hdcsbchh8bqmg8h8o7bgp1/gusidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/56157929326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/23664186501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/46602446239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitofthespiritcatering.com/clients/9/9e/9e5e3efd27976f294ade36eaf76108d7/File/volizijibamediro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/zutubizavivomeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/tetokidubebemifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/rivuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/fugunitowejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f787385aa677e2e882d3f779a005dbff/15574917113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4d4a1b773bd29be98818d8e0be8d1a6/67172069125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/bavativax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbdirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukenenopokizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e4f01ce21---rikojemudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/379530270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+were+the+major+city+states+of+ancient+greecePDF 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_off00012388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12388 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 093cacf85cb90534ff7153e7348fcb5812e97f149ad4c7da41061e65a902a689
font_01_sfnt_off00013d2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2E 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 01bbaa5b483f10d7ea5b9a1f6479b69f38981c9a1cc63fdb45a2354b72fb6df7
font_02_sfnt_off00016aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16ACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1