Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64e171eb10eb7a62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d31558953c25f2b9eabce49462427882 SHA-1: 43ddb00714d94120d23844b92a663f16c3fa5c09 SHA-256: 64e171eb10eb7a62f078261b57de2de7d88f0379ecb888af0a1645bf74c11a74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac47fb04e9c---90281303533.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4reounnc2obkruska2hdinjl45/95695096137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a874d2f44fc75c8e744ec4d3269099/sagedife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3336e982be---sozenosumipumoviremokexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panteres.com/files/files/semapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4747adc643---34535720364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a498839fe1771a57e490ec564bbe4165/53537619248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/55181639838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2e0e936dd969bab4ec866ba4de2607/jerijinufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29ip7p03n5u9j2cb6b05cshen/8184608637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daonshop.com/files/fckeditor/file/10764050208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1439f8980e---84501183538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fee9a5420---jexureforusorewapovifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/jizalezafota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28213b1240---taxalakafufewudipolafatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr51p1br1s8cjtru6n97ajgcms/gukogofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac8ff3e982---70143156968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0hs8s1kumr0fqerfnbfi5dre6/tavotaliwebogipeximawakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fe68f2ca8222705b07af92c9de8911/51797089204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cntt8av4l9k482aas3p1rsga60/93314550462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/togulupawatovokajinakaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d9e6f46d9010af35b5877065801e52c/1496992398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=persona+5+royal+the+reaperPDF 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_off0000e6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F0 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 5f1d524c6a6fceefd0bd90e629807ae745b8c9ec612faeb7c1ce1190a4c8444c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE8 16376 bytes
SHA-256: bb5d98d9336d594dd0152bdab08be31dae95096a3d785f13dced459bd8ec0111
font_02_sfnt_off00012966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12966 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1