Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 262cb60362cb5d51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:42:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8117b968d9d270a04af09e72c203abc6 SHA-1: 53149fdd5f3ae94b92cbccb3aa3304faa946ac36 SHA-256: 262cb60362cb5d5118e81d13191d1e404811aa05393e2dd4bb01e233b414f4ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites. These sites likely serve as landing pages for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to track user engagement with the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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=perfect+poached+chicken
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862f6c48f4f---ruvire.pdf
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/97719193781.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e0f19071a1da398ebc49ea8d2d01bd/leziwan.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2fd2b2f24142d3e1e013506eae93f5/remubejikazugudewebujaf.pdf
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetepozotozup.pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c426dbf1637a9012dd590370927591e/dedovulazided.pdf
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/xuvafagowudebe.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80in1cto3uer1ljfu1l1f8umnv/butoxipanedikubip.pdf
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/98321798324.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8brqvl53f7o45q4ssh56hf674/weburadosewuminububib.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd1244fa15---vasorigiviwenonazep.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e470bcd26a3d4347039648b11e761e/23598442776.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu5bpocm5vvleolaesg53pq1s3/jufudelulujovitegarusemux.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2643bcaf51---tonixasomifanitiboxa.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071df1a2e5d2---xesumebatavos.pdf
    • http://khanaphatgroup.com/UserFiles/file/gotavemudogu.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d018757e59---sebez.pdf
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqqm9tnifnoefckfal879akbq3/marujokuwitewos.pdf
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/34583333467.pdf
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c042d36a866---98726567574.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efbd619205---46796804904.pdf
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/14672412468.pdf
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/989091907.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_off0000ed1c.bin
34525799268731550e491d171a38e5db989c83cf500d713f50a011f76fa333a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1C 17640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013354.bin
386f5d393d9c06a12905cae9c050402156a3bfd7fb366c41a6d6addc803a3be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13354 10596 bytes