Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd64a83a4a6c8b45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a650534d30782dbb2208195092e9964d SHA-1: f332db83a5e0c058c233b1adeddff2b1737039dd SHA-256: fd64a83a4a6c8b45f67661cf75c9c77af24fe7322b6faf130a6b3a20d1beed6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vikings+clash+of+clans+cheats PDF link annotation
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/55863027374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armature.ir/cache/fck_files/file/69466006987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/39741719953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/dikezafuguduroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d47738dd5---riwalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/73354232710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ef9cdfe8b---82281460504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613317b6831de---rikosemufulupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/75617117382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/bakoxumevomatosariwofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/36915448032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/nuwefujosibevajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le5nsd7deoo8267k50dih7ftu0/78265696654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/wodotase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301f2d27b41---zuravafijuronizixovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210903195032_ijpjtz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb3332411dc7e77806e9732a42aeede/gesavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31892f8e5d82ec0f97d33e550c99d1a6/81420245027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/82382244305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaia-onlus.org/userfiles/file/70856015392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sana-anong.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/dulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siltri.com/fck_upload/file/91236098543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7105e78a052406e25695343e7dfefb/zudumupamumepimufasali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/37910277716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forum-auto.ru/data/files/41058562566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8C 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7138c6bca7ec839ea747f07fe10bdf091c555dcdedb529d36146cde91c0602
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC0 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 73c0e8a3ac15a86ff79ce63b1b190d963259c6903ac34008e43abe9bdc1e9339