Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a63d53f4d63e4752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e74ad6b4d01801aacc9b796b431f096e SHA-1: b15192f81294c4543b216f4cb54f56e0b0104471 SHA-256: a63d53f4d63e4752ff924973db8f7f16b614e7a780a8f5f70af9acd927049018
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected 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. These links are likely used to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/47247751960.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d364ed4424---walazepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609067384781a---dupivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fea863421---96022872076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c434c047a9---36234361758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohuh1hjgqjvl3qtcnii04dc133/wevuzonifalefaworitefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/96954065524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/bibixoriwigazixixirofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df4aa155d5---65804405869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35e0d7b8cf---53787377069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b064957536a9a2ecd7f961dbd8d6f76b/xatugokoked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/paxefuxilaveliwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869fbb3a949---pavanaweros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/gijibifojipawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949563d6288ec4902eed387c1a6cf413/99825871948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c31179a66---54985930696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fab28d973---gotijexazewaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads//files/202108120831278679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/xosatuzugotulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokevuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b20f98ba41---ximemegotibajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9de27257e---23718106767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b292363af---bajatavisokokezujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8a43a8df7---69308467056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=empire+of+the+moghul+raiders+from+the+north+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_off0000e63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63A 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 77b6018786bba2a0a8f17991fc6e490520c8a9e02eea5ad3bd52934a5b719e66
font_01_sfnt_off000111ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A04 11028 bytes
SHA-256: a144acb2ddd0770bd9bfdb8da5cadfa10a1f98c9c8fb0bd325255bfef6f03b2b