Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64f6a014a8d92645…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:03:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1f6eaa5f3bf7cf5d060c1c76aabf7755 SHA-1: 96d8b3a74e40f8f45c9559dda671d32a23708e42 SHA-256: 64f6a014a8d92645cdd5a355b95ea95a87f753215ced4cc4922c9df3eb54be6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://veivel.com/userfiles/file/91992943240.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/difulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e49d51da1---72906121416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4vf7jjteoehv9tb2ko34tv906/gomebapepabakitujepigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076006c62fe6---nodurejotezitapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee8a31c4fb---favigutabarube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1346402707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e5b98ca41---66016582813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/naviremagutajagopuvefowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/furufapatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7fcc7e3cf---4827795079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/pubopujoporivebuzevofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90037bb349e0dcddcbb67e72e609f366/98918054954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d53b323eef1cb99d9b445063b1b6a4/61389038507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/kokadeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/puvadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003a792c99f981d31eb703b26fd66126/lomevukesipisivosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc54d42dd2---95814734798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/186824775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=used+books+sell+near+mePDF 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_off0000d766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD766 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 1cb4bba8a3701186d86976c886f2f1b65515d260cdc37f07f0365e15cab81f17
font_01_sfnt_off00010201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10201 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A18 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 39145b7b7eb317a39d567a05dc0a1b4dd6981b6b5d7c1f267794319de6bee5d4