Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e64f4da59efaa8f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:03:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 10751fa70802394ef1071630f3d58bb5 SHA-1: 7c1643f4e8f8ff1a46a970f5a6b3f2583772ab03 SHA-256: e64f4da59efaa8f0a0710acc4a1874feb196ee5d34920d236157a4ab4e28d2fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites that appear to be part of a link farm or hosted on compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/96364414996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090720485543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f462ed714---mipenisusogakojefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles/file/86418634725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/79745412155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/sorugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/86999723439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-09-03/210903070458848461lls309srv3l8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/sixogilojizizaxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/53313162431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613138c91d6a0---93356235414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poker-fire.de/file/19855692847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/41105417415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/73668608338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufomadiputar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/12806310312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeware-software-download.de/uploads/editor/file/80317149176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/4421990779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/vopemorizuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/rataxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texasbordervolunteers.org/userfiles/file/14139756278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esk2k52ardt14jtvermkiqtkd7/99150322399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimofexulunobigagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=three+men+in+a+boat+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_off0000c2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2F0 10652 bytes
SHA-256: b01cf1eb3e1ab9189c22c6075d2e6085416574f2a01843fa08d690432f9d8d6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EF 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 224adb977fd1f5d188e2feb6b49f10f91618d11f0f6f9da6a6e33f1945ac0e33