Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62a0f077c4cf929e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:31:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e4790f1c452d5e47d67b28ab7c7a26c SHA-1: 39af643c281b24fc8cf1924366fbf7c96d57f21a SHA-256: 62a0f077c4cf929ef73ea82054f5e4caace9400f6f2589a9856e8d0f8ead82e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious content, aligning with the typical behavior of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mannitol+positive+bacteria
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65385a586d---gotanaxizaberisot.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/87847914163.pdf
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e79147361c---genapalugaw.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rp2a9kmtmo90veke5cu13qq3nc/78305934512.pdf
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a112d4ebff6beab047a5e6c40e70ae22/97078567595.pdf
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/75423381938.pdf
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7cb3e4c2d---gakijegewam.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533914cd91b9efbb75a35f12d94ab470/nijekezazigekisivegem.pdf
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laah3qpoddhhcd6cksj205e4pk/10077563840.pdf
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/tifitanotutelowesif.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e329842515656ea31f78ea304c953fca/50957830432.pdf
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/59328026010.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a73075a730---gikogabemusegokulemuxana.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872b94f2304---wepafivutofugob.pdf
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/70746951984.pdf
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/15271613554.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864118e51c00149e948ae8dff0992e18/63071743119.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq88h25bmr50hfflg920s7gjg0/foronusadixepezuburijo.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608673264c92b---siwavalipekotoxexonibi.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3679ba116793c4b1436bb13cc1928e4b/13881061888.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8f15ddbd6---77205277419.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50cc571b70---rajujifapogudaporelukuw.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001049c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cb3.bin
c8aa37d5aa6e00717308aeed77e4d2f6c3aa93ee273cdcebb624101eff164ddc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB3 10568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134be.bin
cab8ceee6dea85bf437db9fdd562b8a0aef74c4066cefe7f2a83a632bdc35db7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134BE 16072 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000149c7.bin
2ade2bb9a7854bb0ddb9637af6447f953248bc929cd4d5c2e600500ef8b088c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149C7 18516 bytes