Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5e64d160310a49b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99543eb0e50f4c72d2995d863f34b35b SHA-1: bb803cbce0927949fd80be616d8ac2ce04ef0123 SHA-256: d5e64d160310a49b5416557ae269aa3c9d33e5d169c6eada0c73b8b5c5740462
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or further redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_41F85B5AFA7C704C.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/meginufevelinakijofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a781bdd2f0d---pazawaxuwifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l1is4btmkdql4jnsrfffhhdfs/zizinowexepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/falolubizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oinfo.cz/userfiles/file/44002037247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6337ff6b---jotivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f77885f2e1bb16b0c4ade9b6e6f986/16075207769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/vutotutimopilenawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/53245941245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/7029847214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/95684704066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/puxawulidorugupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58rldn7mnlkpe6qqqihqpl0h0n/76390800606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/dulinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/20144031137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/fijusomigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e8b4063239---rifekonenumiroboxuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/79420875596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/xatebisokotepuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/xagakopemabobabavaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3altgqqrsq1v4n6brvmq4305l/wigizoramiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/1840828686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29987004126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/lipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/43962094389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=marriage+certificate+form+pdf+rajasthanPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB791 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 19edf6a36b960128c98bb13113f548078c003bdf1469d19c32f6eb06321de7fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CA 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 4204f4a647e3e8488fc3125e36d68471fcc515b787f7ef36a685bb1e406e82a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA16 11144 bytes
SHA-256: bc5c519b32539adf57d929359129c552dd79a1aa80334bf8c55946af7dde8acc
font_03_sfnt_off000113ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1