Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62682f3efb7224bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:27:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8de22c3f6226073cd9967b7e4a3a759b SHA-1: 4838ca81de7a884f1787b45d388b236175782af3 SHA-256: 62682f3efb7224bfbffb11ac42fd77ac9e1689c5547e2870a600b7da2579a8ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of redirecting users to external, potentially harmful content.

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 https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/38900584887.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4etn3jn2li0ekh16erbucvfae5/59794068799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumepinofodobobakaxumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/lefekofetegaxijemexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/78612580089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbl077skcf2sbr05hvunodfpii/gunoleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/88837241079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxuwokepiwoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-akparat.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57232567006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/12919960640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbazar.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/51074559136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/vetufidogunedujuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/87685874890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/gutoxizupexudajakavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210902071624_732721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/65878025597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/86479230181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vizagedabemulimejosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e836ba0f46---4619055787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/mepukerinipirutimerite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxewevaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/nesofofezixuriwakegilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+the+walking+dead+season+1+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_off0000df63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF63 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff4a797a4204968fe3513ec3cbd0115dacc1a2fc36752f2170a928a264b9447
font_01_sfnt_off0000f81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001102f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102F 20036 bytes
SHA-256: c30cb5616e9ef706c1c644626835dc6330e29105834ec5801320fa370f710f59