Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64e37c38ba677919…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:36:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d14a78343243c5f3e2c8db0b90433704 SHA-1: e4da1e216f74ffd62c42fc50cde5f78b78c49582 SHA-256: 64e37c38ba67791904b65cd36820f50db1e782a2ceac7019fdc510c2c922f95b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+scavenging+act+upsc PDF link annotation
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/86657240678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwefiwatiteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/97326230253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/22092407914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324dc676bf5---45583154670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv0tg2tpu3p74tvjlm9m0kcgo7/laxupunegexolemopefisokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/120132552366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078828798f9d---48328053112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021072811415380554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/16246479797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/nixowozololivenukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be003dd54fcc77b5d8792a76ee88b1f0/pedamefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210818070657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adee2a3e95---foxezedilami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabosemefelidapinutefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents//files/73443677829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careoncall.in/userfiles/files/voluwuzeriwemomuzakelemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/vubugaretunimuwiselunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c786bebf68a6f72423141f1b75a72f3/defugogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/sonuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/porojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33832088976.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_off0000c100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC100 10488 bytes
SHA-256: dd60aa4016c16dc3a3ca89fc05d8b35ab113213e62906c1d25ff3e5b6c7ac035
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10D 20480 bytes
SHA-256: b349d7cb7fb24c0e790b80adce87b13f405d0d0c3e1208ad354624871a95000d