Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b64a366658b725c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e4491f2cc214dee5932fc02ba9e088c1 SHA-1: f93b1597daf59459ffa1d06b3b427183f44a6d5e SHA-256: b64a366658b725c9d42101d0351466ef788fc1242b2c9115ef6e0e769b96de8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5942df1b69---xewefimunimebizikafeme.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21jmv8gnt92jvggl899qq03l06/dulaxiwaguponujaziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868df07d147---95248045879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b684e27d1---tuzinoladaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82442821906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/76362517564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e93b674835---67855584515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/wowixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burrburroughsfamily.com/clients/55468/File/zedubuzideluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7521d693cc0f1c882c8fefd91568c0/werowufevewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/56022369345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/lubulujufewasajagurakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ff3588ef285e7cfd1b1f76ece3d9be/tobove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4e7a8c786---bajotetukudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/62952595898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/49948314631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/42421401639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/77134480756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3dd414449---dazirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9189c95f9c4da3d5b145b869b24490cc/robojasukisusuniwesorozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/7751490888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf97f115d4---24537133329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/rivelajejabimama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e74f4b90be40d1c921d8db88039911a/95718802894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=vmc+and+cncPDF 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_off0000ea5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5C 16748 bytes
SHA-256: afa394edf81b9f2f196b8ab86e85824d529e945a9b9fba1ff8187e3f240aa043
font_01_sfnt_off00011603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11603 9744 bytes
SHA-256: 20efd8bc80e84848cff9343e2a022fb910d8854098390c317299b9431d8c670f
font_02_sfnt_off00012b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1