Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 062ebbebaad25b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-06-07 06:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 52d33fb92ab5d166952e916192ae2f0f SHA-1: ed0b19fb7219013490fb2c71f11d373aaa017276 SHA-256: 062ebbebaad25b87d5a988237c701f8491c88d0b47f85f25c5a725b087baa8c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure, as indicated by numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=official+handbook+of+the+marvel+universe+vol+4 PDF link annotation
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930f488b8c6---23480170076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/14703147528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15901cf35f92631e9b3a2852fc6b3be1/kuxeburofomesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a01fc5bf0---72630507432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/46889159747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/beruvozumiwowomofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/gufopupibamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4l8mt2ibsk16sdm5m4a8htja5/35514627253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe79eff8e5dd535642b6be9d38f40da6/govobolazijenasadamepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762a59e3605---48874934086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d8dbedac4c80c3a50d6eca0de34263/95087783858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608581325ee73---nuwobibamobupofokedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec83cfb703ebce62794a50553a3db0f/98985762963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426e01c1052ac97c151551ac5a32d070/tilefosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608591d6eab55---37603061848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utnu6p3phnt35oik2kvrqdjcft/zagoraxonoduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f8a39e9e2393a46d7874483cfed2bd/totidelafugakuromejaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000149a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149A1 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 0df4bd0f5fdee12fa523230d7842da584c6375958cc5c05941a36fb91572fe63
font_01_sfnt_off00015c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C39 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 9af17d8bae42320d61483ede9442e40ed82d65e23ef1ff2a0c404f4439bcd051
font_02_sfnt_off0001830b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1830B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378