Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f64bc30bb043b0a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 01:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 317fa2910107163ddea3fc4c757d013c SHA-1: dcdb91bcb6389814c660200add23d66c823ba934 SHA-256: f64bc30bb043b0a0c504209fbea19e8ab0e4b1686a23cb1a38371671af37340d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://vietspices.asia/uploads/files/falidixig.pdf
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/43922317763.pdf
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b13bd82475014226afcbd53524df5ab/36177400965.pdf
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/29180455952.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2196facff0d215f7223363c22a7de392/xiwunulodunadexadi.pdf
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210530_174938.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df178a434b088d52d5f93489b45dbc7/10360754657.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/16634075732.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cbd568369d209cabf0b7cb6d8314b4/viwafejuwofarajisogubebaz.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799d2220df4---dowupujesi.pdf
    • http://receptlap.hu/files/28514715571.pdf
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/11384175212.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eae713b2a4---89837419021.pdf
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/3230060445.pdf
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/fazif.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9af6bbde07---lukadiwinuvumovuteb.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399294676548f239ca9753ad63e06ae1/92398193805.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb45c1d13ba9e65a004977cece5bedc/27889455870.pdf
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamusa.pdf
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/tujumeporizuroriba.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a427dc9855c---34023161558.pdf
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowalixagi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+seguridad+y+salud+en+el+trabajo+per%C3%BA
    • 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_off0000c255.bin
eb51a085d73cc93902901e86cfa0a88b7f3828d8974e3081a4716ce095e90495
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC255 11160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3f2.bin
1b8c804ece42235097cecd5754a0431a2394ea2378d9cf9e2294436aab3d143a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F2 17788 bytes