Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62289ea17ce807e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 08:51:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 16b5a3933f6d248b6ee745dd62e96060 SHA-1: 0dae92bbe2f9147394f0ca95cd8cf5e7d5b4cf89 SHA-256: 62289ea17ce807e64d6b641db823daab072555bc47e9921573d8ffba89730189
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URI links, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter, indicates an attempt to drive traffic to specific malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=estimate+of+your+2020+itemized+deductions PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336aac0dbf5---vivozaroloderedalobanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasishs.com/uploads/files/20210926_134845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wflyyxzrgs.com/uploadfile/file/5669ec3c788178c56ec0ee7309d258a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaox.com/v15/Upload/file/20219222237404452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84549441465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20211008075725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/37159201540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/36574486596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/ranobuwarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210922141953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/94203073307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traitagri-solutions-alternatives.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71044608454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mptech.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51474833265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/99575121518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/vuworemibidixatabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e520db7cf---56215992858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/ludanigonakowogufulivume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latuwewezilujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/sibisosiwulaberefewazape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innovativallatgyogyszer.hu/fileok/file/nibalonofapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/77813031221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhdgv.ca/lpch2010/userfiles/file/vodilipigegewurekojidutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46239482129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/larigidevenunizojefubagaj.pdfIn 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://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_off00012a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A16 20844 bytes
SHA-256: 0cae05042343234176d7e8a2b12e7e095a562e42c62e519742c3edce1e87b959
font_01_sfnt_off00016088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16088 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001789f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1789F 11092 bytes
SHA-256: a0a64ed821c5b61cfb6968e6f6ea56af80c6de7c189403fe72a39ed87166e280