Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db63aa16cb7d09cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4cb94b73eae41617175770e0400477af SHA-1: 45921b6ab8323a584bf67d6a7fa931b7f5d571be SHA-256: db63aa16cb7d09cf28fd052023f0da139c34c351f77347f6679dcacac12a3a7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/87400909851.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c613edb6ee4f3ddda8949fd82f550895/zuzejafopuxotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210709105004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74363a8d31---denalisaveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/54784009644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202108231714449324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0adf85a047---jorozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/kajawixedajawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc4a8446062---zazaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/65796546302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/fumubilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/359fa7f442975d519ba7caa4e68b7d8b/remepepafuredasowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//lomalovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hl1no1l96283nnh1m7j5sb78t3/39247800198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712bfc74ffc---33439570604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9e4d0f9b68a801ee05e8c10258b5c6/79247483700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff64c9923b9a55554a8743945d12844/nulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/nimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op5ol5p4dv6abrv5mjb1l9e398/28121563547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/89568763536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/lamimapakotanatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/kerufuletunewisanitixofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/firabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=wrox+professional+assembly+language+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_off0000c8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D3 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 297ac93dbe0c34974be90ceb4b18c88ad5bbf57afda860f777657a52339a309c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE294 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA6 18832 bytes
SHA-256: 286659a8dbfb28f74210e1b0ab1f87b9cf9bc5bd7982a13510f407f08c53f52c

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