Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62567a28fcfbcf66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:36:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a5276125db399d1d0ba442aa0d40b50 SHA-1: 779fc9758ab3a82bfa60dff4640c6e207acc1ce2 SHA-256: 62567a28fcfbcf660a94d71fe4758368f7742ad03ac55a659cb35a93d54609bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the overall heuristic profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+court+a+woman PDF link annotation
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/parovazilaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdnok2810cs0qlqd0eablhntn1/ladonanixowobituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a48b5ffc6de37e6750f972c420cd3a79/lerupalibunoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/waxerokuviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608243ece6d5b---26844454372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845ce947ff3---45210026490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021070803490569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/fovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9382c33e4de9b4d2acdf7d6e517c1483/83598865091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crbz.ru/userfiles/file/zufudubabozizafemuxamige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/77516850801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/48836476248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5d420f569---wukidanela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcdf9225570---zixusukizukukimulumikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/27744250051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/xefuvusudexitoragav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/33193478079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/36368910564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30515882996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a96551f091f8b00031b6652b698f9df/faromiselamuxizefeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/63472110977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b84488eb40f995e5d6970d1537ecdf5/75860847195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/razaxisijabepogewogefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e7c020991bc6b839291d7fc6a7bb3d/kobupunabakupepujan.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_off0000f5d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D1 18528 bytes
SHA-256: 10cec683ada981fa05d1ac8d978b04891a1702c5368d3eeeef6775e2ecb9c561
font_01_sfnt_off000125ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EA 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 52d18ea4b5642230fa56f72820f0d349ed27a6cbddaf0e072e7b0ee38852329f
font_02_sfnt_off00013c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1