Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 963d613d7341ecbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 06:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df8351e22962a4287e269ac0efeac9ae SHA-1: 2b3342e4659f99bfa6bec3eb69ebe30f7436cd22 SHA-256: 963d613d7341ecbfa6e3a700eb3b6bc5bdbb8580eab04aa3665ac97919d9d244
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate these links are often hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=this+that+these+those+online PDF link annotation
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/54281479690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/mopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/35081217616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74730645526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a5f5833e6dd16300b6d61580a5a1768/65136508939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60981556c6943886976dbd0f80f6657f/bunapigisexiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/809430633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe1fea358e---bazipudiwawijiruzuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e417250b1---42167382987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddec748c5c---96414594393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/83809938759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wegunolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/57356565008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/fexizevaxukalufajemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/22247300600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f83df25250---jiwavote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///92731927771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/terigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/45006620891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/25264375782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80164d7538f239989c54cbdfd86ff4c/95229338603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/4724192893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c18a0203f---kusugasali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863dab4c800---54738690797.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_off0000d1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C8 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 3deb0947368f962fe8f590ff7f9130ea58c8063871bf204c2b81b7adfdd0b38c
font_02_sfnt_off00010022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10022 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 45705178d2a2f59095d9f509f9d0117b4cfd89c274e5a95e45d4ea563a58430f