Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62afe80863477dbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:20:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f8114bef2e3c7b9e9bcf184e3fd004f4 SHA-1: 5c6c652c56d909d8812982a126322bd6311f545f SHA-256: 62afe80863477dbcbc905182884a2b29371539d12a85ab5a32a0db2e2682151a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous links, including those with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://nprofit.hk/userfiles/kuguwagomekesusix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://franchiseinnovations.org/broker-site/files/files/33289012096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/legobarabawitewemasatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/bawuperajasukukufosotezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333fb864578---kikimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6868036786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/dewiwidolumuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/bexibejerojukazafuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130758210910---83214850391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/65229117396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/dorukebuzukulotamufodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunutelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/deganowinarerojunatafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/dutovazususezitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_0026EA491C3C3834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/96337809386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htk2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagijemenexigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/xudesenipuweximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614382b8641c9---40439268340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82628652327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somaketivodinawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matratva.in/userfiles/file/jemifoturibefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f254686faa52691fa536efa0b38f3b19/80751335948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxukazufazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/91498513967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+control+your+phone+from+another+phonePDF 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_off0001015f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015F 18332 bytes
SHA-256: b017aee099866e371b52193d2e94e2f8bb293dfc3b4a5ae6660b06afacd6452f
font_01_sfnt_off00013070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13070 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14887 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 7777e2dfa44d93db397c9fcc9fd748d70b55fad4c502f4aad21e59ca4d992007