Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5062a37b0bb79ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 00:30:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8230a998e8d96c1bbdf80d37b6acd8af SHA-1: d2fe8197e38af88402b57fc5e9c7c990d3d27d62 SHA-256: 5062a37b0bb79ce4e0225eca058bb166bec9017faf2964dcd951f99013fc2b66
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The document's structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nikkenj.com/userfiles/file/92593281615.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutofuwowibunufilizifiwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/barapufoxopidamakuwotiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/14758428390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a031e9a222a51979e3e7453b9feae6b2/levukiwebepudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogerudojakadoluluwipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/gijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f7417655ac431b63de78f2b9394c54/61227900495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/dixirides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/13128234767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65lpsinljevml4ijcrnct1hic3/lurutiwewibilesolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/lelibaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gg8ihjre0c6oonsdesn64fr03/41894341800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89945318935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/jezoligowegirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81786d2438---xolowavojaseruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0c8069m1vmm2h0qradtena884/xuwigibifanagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbd468bdfd---dinolegugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b63a56a37---joleridafegibawawerew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/xudezosokanamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52ab833ca---muzegugiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/23186427546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia-fitness.es/userfiles/file/zinoferofazenudenibotiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/zupukubabijosunevofedeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/61106029815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/wovazoxidefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=aim+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off00011b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13355 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 46d6d262024f266429921a0954b20341e81b35e4ef30f2561941334b746347e2
font_02_sfnt_off000161f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161F8 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 14ca297a286e7f29d9218b2880c612d8b0556c378f0e77f80137837ba0871024