Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e62f3fef1839849…

MALICIOUS

PDF

178.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 02:21:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 8f05d707541f1ca6acb48344981d59ed SHA-1: 4e1048363e003803bac98f1266c7095fc4c74d0b SHA-256: 5e62f3fef183984957aca562516f33a76d14992d3b43618024c19fb133182913
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=job+simulator+vr+cracked PDF link annotation
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/20122968999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/869hoo2kkmoja172b7uvsol3g2/suvupawaxuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d9da9b0c70f74f7f86bd8fb6546f575/givurenuzadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b384ebf2d87ef3ff531c9ff1693a3051/68229956463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608728c7d8042---56089392237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210502154724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/95150195033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc620d8256e78becec15f288b1a90e5c/xarawigasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/71202648862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919e8352530---zudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b479bf0a0d4---86843429972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f36c22543---56743104295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/paneken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5628e531---10782235328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/metid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/398842221fca4c586f6abd6b08b54b9b/bufituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/ponidevoweduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4fb087896---lobesezuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000263c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x263C6 4444 bytes
SHA-256: 091a9d20fcacef781e4e892697c241e0ebcae1f7bb6ec829e64b83d2a6416f43
font_01_sfnt_off0002736a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2736A 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 37d34cd8095d9da96912d92c1e5f237cf4bd4e7ef2e47690a2693b3b55f1d4fd
font_02_sfnt_off00028572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28572 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_03_sfnt_off00028dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28DFF 12484 bytes
SHA-256: 214ddf4d6a98a811f9c1f90b92e27ffc4b4758eacd7e03263b3c7c60b4a317c0