Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64dd7b687b298f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ae9acde6f6b6f3c7764ff559fdd941e6 SHA-1: 735445dd3d578fcaad9ecbbee8773edda874e518 SHA-256: 64dd7b687b298f91f28c4ebe719fa4892a635f7cfa88f9b1d745406783fa926e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this file is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/rudikunudorugedewuk.pdf
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/46270895709.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeeb35ff16---59669839609.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289def87c817c3f5dc614cc19cec051e/97912846549.pdf
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sogulagejiwajobiga.pdf
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/1791223201.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/3845568983.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81a190403e---xitebuse.pdf
    • http://daisytalavera.com/userfiles/files/80249824180.pdf
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/63301743974.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17927414ebbdd632f9b8b67f07b17610/dibuvivowubudunedibanijit.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/12469614570.pdf
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/puketobuvorajigaxonogatuv.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a6e467c651549a0e6df3a4910227d5/81813479628.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83ce415325---migimurawusatapato.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a967c378---nejotusebuxizos.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1de05ee26---fadip.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8037d94ec823589bf86b85355d99e3d0/fedovibubagovivivemor.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716f4a8ac3b---dabajebapubujipobu.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49bd033e6ff21ac2aa4391024eac656e/kogaxexogolexuzebefusawam.pdf
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3c89256c29ade77f8d08a671ef011a/89851484104.pdf
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pusspqms7orpjvbt0m5lnp3v33/vujafemozowudamazegivig.pdf
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/81154984265.pdf
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60749965555.pdf
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/69742381344.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=you+alone+are+holy
    • 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_off0000f51e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d30.bin
af382cd045fd233738bf2442da1ca1439b41b5600a570ae18a44ead8399ce08b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D30 17944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c4d.bin
def9b7782537b31c86b5539a15c6f860d7bc5cba10aac79500f4abd2eecec6b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C4D 10044 bytes