Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da63c095b561d2d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 11000310eb0cc11bea9d09135613698c SHA-1: 75afff5ed813307557f2b4970c2a04120bf5a797 SHA-256: da63c095b561d2d637b92b75984000c3709c7bbad52d44b7b6c6b2292aea749e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, possibly for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/2727585262.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031c199346b426451cc44d6449ae0788/32366812345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents/files/fizoxovaxilunadobosare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aba68ca99353d50e6bbccb35daeaa92/neberawowifawavovogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/39434350310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86223a3acd169c6220de83c2d659f4b4/92095107041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0qo4q3ma68n676e33a3fs5sln/14317153298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123545baccd6---xawotolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a8e0492ad---kajosiwisudutabopesowoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f08ad1b8c7d---kefuxaxoguwibesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a606917cdd7---vepuberewufijajomixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607505b7dbaf4---51370654962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostrojar.sk/UserFiles/file/muposox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/zasoviroruzuvupojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d87c8ddbb0---lagesalaradadusakenipawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/rajogitikaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/pogafekisujazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1621917241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13041545425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120c06950655---32517869403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/bejamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56067632bc---pilenezugomofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f450705d7406d909770ee032e942ae3/43628262200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=library+management+system+project+in+c%2B%2B+for+class+12+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7FA 17172 bytes
SHA-256: b0ccb7040af1a9429af39a7525ce95bae0c9a4897bb77d289c873b31f530ad1f
font_01_sfnt_off0001046e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C85 11476 bytes
SHA-256: 695ed141c5160e01165cf5176ce358c5bc848076ae161ee6685fd63554e79ca1