Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d63c06166a7317a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 80717d3bc7f28e06ea003e1653ecea32 SHA-1: 33d2bf08bbe1996dd25c9e57ae9c6a815b7780f1 SHA-256: d63c06166a7317a0e4226a6e541407c2136f21f6129ad7a0bb3fdb11519895ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

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 https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea926f9fb5a06e2cce44e81299a07a30/jokejip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/7126367709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/75572753186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/goxedifisubilupusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/54374398354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109121444413757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5cc330367---3987762097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_17472B018464C57C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905150018869275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a2f0cc07c9---15421436062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neloruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/82575601689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631420451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/38253322393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4f55a38a1---63815964564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613072f42be9c---72085514934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/lajodeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/wabupusufumujebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/paxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/63587929141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/mazulupixarulokebegokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/57707695420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/refajuvojulesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df994c3e4b---70218211788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=you+will+never+work+a+day+in+your+lifePDF 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_off0000dc49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC49 17688 bytes
SHA-256: b35a5a146ce39fa07dda49ca3677627ea5c830797ca46f35b3a3e33e7e60c08c
font_01_sfnt_off00010a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12264 10520 bytes
SHA-256: b3b8660e8cf5254c24769a9abf0335ea4d7880bea758a26b00e0b09b2c667aee