Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64e7c9de49eb0660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:59:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7719b0d869bf53417f930e79883bf3c0 SHA-1: 1259350806011708c28cfd843b58bbb552b89fb8 SHA-256: 64e7c9de49eb0660de89776038e65bb07fb4b0fcca952f2df0a30be9b1ad465b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/narivinajefawufafil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/73083857907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/jefexatozoridotagofisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113c846427da---29269765959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/3217258175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lnngflcn6fjrnf0sknsu2r71o/dobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f70ee3230---wakeripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3cbf7e9b5---walevodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/senilolawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/76638332454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a030900719a---sogafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6e21b7e0a---16092287390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uvs2qqnnmve97ib5e87vcioi5/50242826516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/13597991394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3b41cc5c4---niwute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/femadubojotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasusegekitiroreli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnorajasthan.net/userfiles/file/zupiveges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c777cd0dc2d---pumabosasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/96549237242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a0a7cba88---97247943817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/99195470454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce58782337---87548117319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=training+schedule+template+pdfPDF 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_off0000f104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF104 17960 bytes
SHA-256: cecbefd6c05d6e1ac345e18cbeb6cc28a382ec67fd51433e2acf8732e13a8b46
font_01_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 11008 bytes
SHA-256: d7370f914558bf0313fbe0caa7d5910fcfb1e9070b18837cac2dd9314920df6f
font_02_sfnt_off000137f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1