Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b63d44649a042b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 78ffeae916173ed4032e3cd770ff8263 SHA-1: 1c81f4b23b5980ffe22dd35cca517e6fd6732796 SHA-256: b63d44649a042b72538f862ae66808dad7fdac03a1a643091b28cff29300a861
181 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or malware distribution. The document body contains numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable. The presence of these links and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users through deceptive content and potentially deliver further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF advertises pirated movie streaming/download medium PDF_PIRACY_STREAMING_LURE
    PDF rendered text advertises free full-movie streaming or download using piracy-brand names or a 'full movie + download/free/watch' intent phrase — recovered after folding the styled Unicode confusables the campaign uses to hide those keywords from plain-text detection. These are disposable SEO-spam carriers that route users to malvertising, fake-player, and scam pages; the PDF itself is inert.
  • 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://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/gapojosulofoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613292309d214---88957162412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/83967104610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/25967245831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437fde937cc---37662763271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://receptlap.hu/files/tajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210914141746688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eae0a2c8278c2f3b694aa98955d0480/53894871593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/69045334199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614531bdd2c8f---89279559971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/23552197413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/jujelezoposaxitogisudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanghsin.com/uploads/files/202109171509025901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d665985dc---vugesuzevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/dakesuzegisazizubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35354333438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/34004257730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/zadimoborevuwovonimagoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021090500111080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/19061189504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465544e72fc---matipojuzilunisobapopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/tiriwaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sax+altissimo+finger+chart+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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000f6ff.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000f6ff.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FF 17856 bytes
SHA-256: eef5565b882586de59cb7d392588c495ad640d7f59533237e48b5f57ebe2057e
font_01_sfnt_off00012477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12477 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C8E 11244 bytes
SHA-256: e82d39fb380bfb54ce99cf2f4e12f3911127454e84e8272633fe63d11541e2f1