Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62a52feef8581805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-03 03:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c3f0df32f84a7a17a47c483314d31bb3 SHA-1: a3ddf6be37979bce8c26098a3d38602690b7891f SHA-256: 62a52feef85818054915bb17695703970ddf6acb478e9765a0f7a9b3458e132d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links points to a watering hole or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=security+guard+sleeping+on+duty+warning+letter PDF link annotation
    • http://www.39koratmachinery.com/file_upload/files/3648382047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mchs.kz/userfiles/File/99280107244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a7104c42e---zolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134af6d7762e---47570289414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdenito.net/userfiles/file/75484792691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.fr/ressource/site-image/files/degixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19699196108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covina.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/62244069732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/vevuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texasbordervolunteers.org/userfiles/file/23594146503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/11510250338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614877bc00aab---27760767148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e5tbr.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/pagikotowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufebilolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/tujibunivamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/89099983628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/gowefogomesonirepizujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/niratitagumutafimetib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/wosixawogatexalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmaxi.ru/userfiles/file/bozadakizumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/77595408511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158e3324c566---96186820278.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_off0000b1cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1CF 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 0f8ebd3aeb21fed35e98b0f656591725e6f6f07484dfb540f9b81a5219ac9ade
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD06 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 0155dcdd77a6445a96620a1f460b91695571d086c7ce2f3f878885eaabe6d4e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1