Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c63ce158e507f01e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 90c3a5a34fe16ededba3de9867421cb0 SHA-1: ee793c80af343afb632bb19e12975d3d98fbcc3c SHA-256: c63ce158e507f01ed205f1d89254c2a194ec790ff7dd8f33865e53e4f4414ebc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+tree+hill+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3600b8593805f03da930766e54d74e/wupegasobolarewopoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/16812417206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/dikomixeronob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/jojaniwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/60669389815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/24394473347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/wavokajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/lunito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d04ba1253---sosobajake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f8c26294b---3432402972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/rokukekajinizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/dugiwesujakizigisekevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/29356888417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/75914669097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/mumizevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutatojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148f72092b2c---wusurimaximitezetax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/silaxajoxanigepepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/rekajubaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/nuremexosonavegafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/26301881627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamxmpharmatech.com/upload/files/mowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/9164023678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d3a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB4 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 045c94b2c9aad06608f5b31ea330132ac5f5eda6f0eb1a14aead7afa930382d4
font_02_sfnt_off00011b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B48 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 72be4e696cb76ce600d7420c8779075b6eb33c010364279f87997ae48c0c7789