Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f64790d9e3e1b5d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 23:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3b8f1dd69838d8283b04ebb0c8def320 SHA-1: 4aacb70ee96d2a4f6a9e044d3c2509c52b342b7f SHA-256: f64790d9e3e1b5d9813a03a8b5e0d7b55d4495f30e869c5087a67b836d6da2f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as lures for users to click through to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=withholding+tax+on+services
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5mkk4bodl9tiqoisqi0ej0oas/luxuvorobukudumojun.pdf
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/17469615570.pdf
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210523011341.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29d55759b3e453eb7a6a312de8c3514/55792948948.pdf
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968e921dbde---tixebafitoruvezamonide.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee138ad116c14b3c1455bd24dd9724b/tatiladaneritizuwomi.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksodt0tkfob3e9h75mdra584am/tibon.pdf
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/11852893165.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210504020140_1943944190.pdf
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne2cns2ec30sj421s6ul4evdb5/95026595698.pdf
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/70571330075.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hr47882qktv3h0r8pnmfor2ciq/3625000122.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdp276qgef2n976thuig0mav1v/vugitemawowusarodinuke.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cb54ac0df---39377662558.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829edb43dc5---bizexozuge.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1437b10ddf1e3f710ba50416ccbba80/7034873781.pdf
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/41583178894.pdf
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/feduzediwonexubewupuzaf.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb39dbf523---kokikobonede.pdf
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17bc490799a4047a8de6132d18455dc0/xapezezinivusavigemiropo.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a1a2c95a4---90791198432.pdf
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210528053020.pdf
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/xasenulukasukitevalirajoz.pdf
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/zokuvololomadosupuso.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_off00011678.bin
61da2e2a4c2d5de46c62672fb9799962f3b8713363d5d5b2fc2a82ee71a62c06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11678 10812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012f38.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F38 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001474a.bin
8a89c6981f8fbbf4406e34a8fc184ac45462172b0341174c3ea34248b5774b70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1474A 17404 bytes