Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b63eff60c34169a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5a8b99523a4ff9b7a7ad5be91a66ce76 SHA-1: 6757766c39d1a71ce05adb3208858c2c6276cb89 SHA-256: b63eff60c34169a1a00303f1bc37c62af669af887c864aa3d2d782cb24d3a159
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a significant number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Notably, it includes an instruction to disable security software, a strong indicator of malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://morakothotel.com/file_media/file_image/file/wimunufibemegumunofal.pdf
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f69268bd97def264aa25fadecbd83b/53947403426.pdf
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/98086322800.pdf
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/jewilugijerupokono.pdf
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/poduzovosaret.pdf
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/78701468379.pdf
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revogitimozoro.pdf
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/ziwifemugiranun.pdf
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/93225672244.pdf
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/89698812146.pdf
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repaputarivemuxapanifulan.pdf
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/tezamegij.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k3ueo9mbkjvhaen6of0vqke4i/37741454605.pdf
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/zimilez.pdf
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/nikameselivafesivezoruned.pdf
    • https://newdesert.pl/userfiles/file/tulazonotakimijebiju.pdf
    • https://gameclub.by/uploads/files/wagazokukokuzagid.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fcdc98a50b528901906165f6a684066/lesiromidupixefav.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc4a98e6b8be775d17f93f1e5b72ce5/7861493364.pdf
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/remikudefu.pdf
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/59649482902.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lock+an+app+in+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4d4.bin
7e77be94da9fa77978954a1c388ed95fed0d3011c73c6fba26175c8e59a00294
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D4 17188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001014f.bin
3fd4f583473970cd709a0b05895b8542ff71a2317bc2e4a3f6a7dc6054dae365
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014F 10112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117e7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E7 16792 bytes