Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0062e3792e6a54be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-27 04:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1f33b0a536e81e9ddcbd85a74e5e03af SHA-1: 17df6437fa442e2413d646c1bb6048e42a3d3d16 SHA-256: 0062e3792e6a54be276d4d5040345e7d262433980c543a82088d820d03f82b46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5f687d9e69cfebe62b736f69cf597a/85328237836.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8400d662655a156182030d20335b3fb6/zudevafifefusemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/remami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/sowaximumamodejilikudifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/47967380288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/98759105958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/737d7fc23efc45dea58cd9d23235d204/12206632428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1626097121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/bafepofofatifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af282ed0df---nixunafesaxukopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/rofiwugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51360255710ff242f223dac243ad60fb/18803925484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075603b10a2b---kusimurafosuxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779a62837ee---63123553065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34b1fa43725a2dd5f454d11f276e066/kexozogono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/50387737590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0389045a3---30764926332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/jejaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zokerukogukagekenamufatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89541544a3683ffdedca0c190a52267a/72203778709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3cd1cb2d8---59348327856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/39981799247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38a31530872104e12586f8372a39d63/99029902060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=encumbrances+of+title+includePDF 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://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_off0000e8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D9 10860 bytes
SHA-256: bab4f237ace6c7647312050d354b47ba8cae8b6f3891369a28b857a08e593de2
font_02_sfnt_off000119e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E0 15796 bytes
SHA-256: 50a7bf3a82049ad402f3982c9b2b9988dffbd59d306feda8f65405c0cbcccc81