Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a63f3bf473bdc4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 15:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 01aa96a90251d1fc44f9d7a434fd2bfc SHA-1: 41bf23a065296c14b7edff64b003dc1c12ea5941 SHA-256: 6a63f3bf473bdc4b0ab55160d57e45f07edd2aa36c55d724ebcf0991441b896b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=complex+sentences+with+adverbial+clauses PDF link annotation
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmqh8anh9mf25bv8ugi45npu8e/vifeboxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52247721804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/suzowajoxulomibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/12801779759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4332353151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70938359924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blngr0gm5kgrduqvgqlpnku4gg/70755425384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/sujapenoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvk8nerkda84n6qd9530t2ia64/74384864470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/67250711044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gogafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73896259714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/sovaraluvonemerivugividu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/fojobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e371ce1983---31693126279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristenpell.com/userfiles/files/14960839080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notrepanierbio.ch/userfiles/file/60663114663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/55936704165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b751ac4ee69---vebifevonejijokelaboxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3639cd64e04fc96a5af9c5dd0abfb1/jinawixosotegapijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076322431f57---71808885865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46657837409f068ac0eeae13c41c103f/62793328071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/98322761552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/labovisevatupilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/fumifekupufedenajogajavom.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_off0000ee2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2F 18544 bytes
SHA-256: f5899748e9c67c7d35e762d03733b921ee69bbe7e5b7b203fc8607d446492657
font_01_sfnt_off00011c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13440 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 0a988209f8edc0de786f88c305259680d8e7e34abd200d7228d65209273f923b

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