Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62896fddee716ed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 91234f09afe3959c285978ae1faa1420 SHA-1: 4a36648d0b41a4c23d5125737ea1b803598ff811 SHA-256: 62896fddee716ed16691672d0c1c09dede139079419402636647bb6349ba9dbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using compromised or disposable hosting for malicious content distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ipayon.com/root/FCKeditor/file/befugemubazemiwaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pegastelco.com/pictures/files/figozijizokosizufikata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/50811876262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bd0b994c0---9347115668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/45380640120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/83835525461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/7659823837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/juxovuluretituxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/jagoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d07bbd496e---12341973423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzps.pl/userfiles/file/vexatilabejolitumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartament-krokus.pl/userfiles/file/32472199994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/keferekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/nudomulewebisesemosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33053561484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/17167858327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/77150639341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408cbc4c8a8---kosojorotameve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wigupifilupejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90805871329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/29314489254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/68858288978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/47216037409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/30828919306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+wifi+cracko+apk+without+verificationPDF 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_off0000c402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC402 17548 bytes
SHA-256: b1d92a8d1e2bf5ac79d7fbaaaac479661cb4262d1da81f4155b117b8e385330f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10966 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 3cee26c81e835088988a714d084a060f924f33a1783ca988dd568dfa3e26afa7