Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62163b506c98965a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:13:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b4bbf3da07a9d8d49eb0973ba7fef05e SHA-1: f91e5b441a03555309a85cfbda75c384b3f67f6a SHA-256: 62163b506c98965abfdfb06e6638780340215519a3a2a65624559f1d7ab742b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true malicious intent through a large number of redirecting links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/87626998587.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/23087395166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5989d2a0a---18069913394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee0740b0a07aaa87df7a85d4c83e47b/66336325018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/kobovebepujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd1e48e24d---12935050863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/81390353326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b12019afd---sezarabugirilavupatefuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/35881349814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835bb120792---57567940618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/22433546443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e107e4e431bf513ade45b98ea783a424/bojiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801e289a11d---fifuxojubimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d995b623b964fcd2c842a954a428ef/10253003829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210605054955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4b5fd3549---folugipugekesotepemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/dogoturotiwukon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5abe178cc75f277e4a795b542fa4b24c/86006677992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070509fc2559---nuziruneleturomijurodakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/wiwaguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e3e73f646---70911251638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/52993823648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=4.4+factoring+polynomials+answersPDF 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_off0000e38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA1 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 8af909dc9bccfbb0c61e0e769ba38948ddd353bc1d3f19e6dca97608e7cefa5d
font_02_sfnt_off00011586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11586 16940 bytes
SHA-256: dda51a0ebe51fc72e4f70bd9194324cf78611802f95a0873479cf5db48012f82