Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62133b7b4de5e152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-20 07:29:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7257ba03f85a51525841132d790fae35 SHA-1: fbacbd7fbe209ea476dbb3b991ccd0b1a63cbf6d SHA-256: 62133b7b4de5e1523419fe0217d66fb42dbf5fdab3dbc47c49db5e59a3dfdc76
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detections strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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 http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/bojasalerufakixefov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/278510387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqcrp3pbq30s8fc7stue4m0b7l/murujuwiwosalivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7b925ca0cedbfea24672cd8ef7e910/52168893326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/barozuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813a6fb645d---18694559442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608111a4de94a---32605436171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0k88bvi5outtvtiteiq5kvr3e/43615294098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fc7b3ba1a1b7cf213f1c5bef53913a/besejarizotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/79993994541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2ca90140c---96882973856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5af6c4b7e---43560134559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d2baf92fc09b25f5c6918fbf2edc90/38780238009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210531161415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea1c95a4a4---lewedatanofujosominuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+3rd+year+physics+notes+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 5528 bytes
SHA-256: e256e0d5d0fe6287911f9bd37aa2b55e242c5d1d33792176c6d74587b7373598
font_01_sfnt_off00010034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10034 3720 bytes
SHA-256: b91f3c26f37c28538ed09035cbea6f9221827f1e30b50c452f08cc820bcc167b
font_02_sfnt_off00010b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B97 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 4bdfa199497dc9e705167d35c5e4a2f7d2da3cbaa41832ef6de3def74dac5654
font_03_sfnt_off00013175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13175 13260 bytes
SHA-256: 15cf6e6db939608737c50793ddd1d3d8253bb88f17392b6d80106e9818fe9dc3