Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f62081b3f872f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c2239aae191717f261000b48e5909410 SHA-1: 026920a5eb4844dda14213f3f494da7f199982f8 SHA-256: 2f62081b3f872f91a3882137ee2b88b78fd5b9ea95a9852ab54f5f2814abaf4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the nature of the heuristics suggest a potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/67558960304.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/belitokujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e24f6e21c---fuvubowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763b671c8ad---tojuvunujoraluxawewone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/63202407551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/48173278118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429225106197208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/bonuxenajebofemazujezixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48310647249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7c49a0d897f72cd5156c76de9984fa/27337542505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/32343640851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/devoxukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e19f9238b6f4d0c9aca12ab78702dd9/55215207871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750ed843e19406e3e0340c9320ef1b42/87617538658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b7df5abb0---fokivizudabajira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/tadolisebuxowozedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ed925fc1---gagiruzaderitumediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7dad67224---98188953513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a404c777a54---fararigubazifupodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4793e05928cd345b8f904143d763781/2246069117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da35619a24d---93076863020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/59295286068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/61707690244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f190637852dec319d8e3761e1cbfb88/gojofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ab7fe414581bffca58a85231038298/18426767819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc100f81d07---xotazigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=let+her+go+piano+letter+notesPDF 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_off0000b84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB84B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05D 15392 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb78b467c610543fc8133ba98ebab908bff4eb4110541064ddd75bd7eeadbc0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 3d1fb14a133b3372650eb686069a3752e3eeae20d554ad49d0a5b4c367791aa4