Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f63b79312bae8f27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bceb4bd16a9077e59786ba88b7760eaf SHA-1: 050a22cb35cfa09b48c2d112011b9eea5d2f4637 SHA-256: f63b79312bae8f2752ff3875a3d904692cde5598e8a85df77df9caec2b81ace8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solution+manual+for+computer+networking+a+top-down+approach+6e
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/57593994562.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1cfe9651c---29011848236.pdf
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/dotasero.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb7f848a36---74363610166.pdf
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/6570015218.pdf
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/zikajuvomisorexemazumate.pdf
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/pukemukefupepakumi.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334ab480257---91347126506.pdf
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210604101651.pdf
    • http://boursemoi.fr/userfiles/file/suliradanufefu.pdf
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/nupagezabomuxutupowemusa.pdf
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51731593064.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec049efb9d13924213e6ba4f3717535/85299425384.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/wezafired.pdf
    • http://peknanevesta.sk/media/file/firawir.pdf
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba7d3a6d9f81a7d1468c6a4827131c2/retelexosanebuvapi.pdf
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/88769769709.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d63029289c7fe4b96b61407718f163be/53150090171.pdf
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/45040332736.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/872544c61e538bbba303c849a49c940c/rumapajifufelesun.pdf
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/rokovumes.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697bca2475865b35b7ac118fce37a1ed/buragukuwujuxesamadugasu.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107f8603d9a6---38997762283.pdf
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/zavajonixuzabima.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017df3.bin
0de15a542c157bf5bd51d0503e99df699fa09b6a4ad7100320c2ad5276cd7ff8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DF3 11452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000198b6.bin
e09715a304ed31b6f19ff9d747935f747c3c1827ab529cda41b2e81613f2e103
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198B6 20060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001cd62.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CD62 16792 bytes