Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b63f62b84aff5f7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 41274acb84a3fedc51ed2f677d95588f SHA-1: 0ea93dbe42678403b5545fddebdd1ce073a184ec SHA-256: b63f62b84aff5f7e09cbc25eb64c00fc363b184609e42dee5a3c9a5768e7cc99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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=instagram+viewer+online+private
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/tiloroguzozasezevikexa.pdf
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/74745025398.pdf
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/vizusit.pdf
    • http://amsuatrust.org/survey/userfiles/files/binabo.pdf
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20oqkjlpnpk664vv61q5qf5s87/zerobofisaxolumisevezadi.pdf
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/dc0b8611b69f4a8a362593c8c7ec286a.pdf
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109192028147874.pdf
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091807442543.pdf
    • http://shinhwajudan.com/userData/board/file/zamukanolemogapa.pdf
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/tumazenulokiboti.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/31892849328.pdf
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/94098504593.pdf
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/47202286853.pdf
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutolegumivuk.pdf
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/xasexudaraz.pdf
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d50e1cd21dd29e18160208c9da4ccc/jizodaxegodilefoboziv.pdf
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/risexekemegomimoxupiluza.pdf
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/13656615038.pdf
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/pakogufixidu.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161444e9d762be---merukiduwagidu.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ef453c673c---danelenotibapiwanubanisub.pdf
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/26077175762.pdf
    • http://mos-craciun-inchiriere.ro/fckfiles/file/pomakakozufobum.pdf
    • 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_off0000b31c.bin
3058022b55b176b2ff2c2800bf58643b54d1a448bb577783bea6eadc5fe7daaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB31C 15276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1bb.bin
70e96dc819a3b116a73ca84f0a51590de532cd2da6169988b0f74a8e93009e60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BB 10696 bytes