Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62b95221019e3e01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 95c696b649babfc02894d0d45ce57fd1 SHA-1: 5b090ea6399ae1ca422c78a4f3d9d419371e7eb8 SHA-256: 62b95221019e3e01d5d9af1ec459f4d75e40abc18dc9e01a5ad7ec98bb8796bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9653

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://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21253fc764083956f39c47b77057c97/1045860746.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7c553a474---nezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e505739606---daxuwupiwimirijuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85a4172ad1---xosele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e9a77714b---vomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fa2942600---fejaxovutolovuginat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe13cc7cf600a0eb8698b90b36b3358/sokorokitovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfjlfmiadtmnasb8o7s3qqrnjf/petesedikizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/bafukawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/js48b2dab8835e00rnkstushb3/6742189982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/zawofuvidifuriwesirazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f989499b9---78604860843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i27p40ucoa02prq73iv75jc3fd/36597300229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doreenindiatours.com/userfiles/file/muxibabosiverenekagerabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vuzaxebupebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78bg93nrglv4huro2ag07frvg1/17341072413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7dba965e93d37da06be5eb3a744aff/tazurarumimopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/31821751541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f03d7b30df035a2575d01010773796da/81922378312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/detude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scchvf18o6rl6e0na4bb49k2u4/62438370236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/mafoginizidiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071786375085---14570689394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/38477434722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+grades+are+considered+junior+highPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000173d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173D2 3808 bytes
SHA-256: d6c7a6fee04e786b752e822e9449b8c8d0ea2603ac9091fee972ec98929edb42
font_01_sfnt_off0001827d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1827D 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 8200c024ed2720eec12ab882f10943dddce6679271b3cf7694c1d636bf58475c
font_02_sfnt_off00019a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A16 23136 bytes
SHA-256: b1bcebd3afb8de8c7586d9d77f8e54c97c1ae25aa4c0e8c4d75fc4ab1289e434
font_03_sfnt_off0001d49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D49A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off0001ecb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ECB1 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6543e7344750c55099777bdb80f5ac858ce0cc2ea45cd4da605f95f84bf113