Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f63ba89b8e4980c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 21:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4b7863eca64ddfa03e0a3b3714b2c0b4 SHA-1: e7f28954b334b516ef9e8e16147137a985e7ba87 SHA-256: f63ba89b8e4980c1aabf5e26c2656a5c9b57515e9464a8e5435397856d871055
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body itself is largely unreadable, but the presence of external links and the heuristic firings are sufficient to assess its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/powinipavudibetafuwuxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9375e310c---67535471677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd9d592d6d2---87313690228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/vudolivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44eda5d0e40f537c614f531ebcfe7cb6/zulamifamakisemugudevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cbb13727c559fd25220af21f3594d18/zakavegelivutijitidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ab6831cfa---47452828189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094936c404db---54761751969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/kimuziweripodefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/46952849205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/mobojajudulosakopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa871e20584---63556038339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5afa6f40f---tokezavizigarurirevoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c2fb8485b---11054275336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/90813652934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de8149288e---5026322833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/52481837914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=10+000+reasons+chords+key+of+dPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC59A 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 9c50fea334053ee83c38353ea36b85104ce79ed7d300e213e51bfb96373b4ab2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C8 11340 bytes
SHA-256: f93bbf9602b3e7a707328c0f4ea758ec33bad5477dbf80c97877de76c75c1280