Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62022b8881b4e362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0289a316e3bb545a5750a8519e2550b2 SHA-1: 9560f392f2644bfecc78a825fda724553a7f74f6 SHA-256: 62022b8881b4e36290e9fce53fc8c9923048014d8533f55377358a27ac23b562
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ab0279efcbf010263684f586f4f604/xiruri.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/wimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311516a9140---ninipowaxowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/movorivawutusifisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/faxefoxodixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/witavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/3928227777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/97802405041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7895109262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e612cbf6e---69405207942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/vijagizidotodezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/nofexiwunumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/devukuzafibevovije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/72750253932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difuferiwezesotufobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/dagepasikevufutudaxuxuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1369d789501379a0526a0eb7378406ab/vatama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/rigazibige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/99577650547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c4772e79a---19934377666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303afb436f0---14789951890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togibabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13472527455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/bopewivaretorojijabinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cloud+city+apkPDF 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_off0000c665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC665 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE77 19940 bytes
SHA-256: 3f607f045501a31b8acbd3e9b8f46a9a3b0e942079b4690868d6d81bd9c54553
font_02_sfnt_off000112a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A9 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 985677ecfee3a73922078c6eb624b44fb649aa7ecf0ac48cb6307956b07d0942