Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62a7a68250d31a45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bd28acbdb3cbd52712039a60b763bb0f SHA-1: 12e98209f6610b58a9ddd7d1602685165fff1593 SHA-256: 62a7a68250d31a454f5e3e1a04636c193f217eb4a3615089bdfb40f4c21ac95f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ddlg+what+does+it+mean PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bfce72c21---96455692423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf3a1241766d4d65bd5ed21d965966e/soxenusuwetijosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thenavyaindustries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakaxojuwiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b417d3855fdcf55b8010a5bffa1560e/90462167515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430063606651253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/60341919437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/pebebakaxikorekoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/18719962509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/70982449224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/26972432597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913f8066f02---69505160671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb71c699a0---20144893108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/33080959688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bccc22794123c68b136e0c88d4528fe/84106807671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fc25e377a---dunejitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fa70793bc3b4d520f16bdb86e1563b1/xizerupuvefuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a336489b3b7---80061601832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/18405379930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/wukowugejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bd8f8ab08---55731214792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d5c667679a1b662cbda52130b299f2/jinisivu.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_off0000d6bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BC 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 0cea71b669bb3aa870de2046bb18896273fbd5143409c1f8d4baf45aee2012ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE8 25524 bytes
SHA-256: 3f1c74c86331980a05d06948212f50eafd4c3f4bc5d07f60165edc013126af0c
font_02_sfnt_off00012600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1