Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62b98f748bbd4ae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-02 20:41:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 18108317f20ed02235248a7b286c73c0 SHA-1: 143105b93218b1d583cf5117b1dc3b27da01c5dc SHA-256: 62b98f748bbd4ae68ed56d3561c2fc585f1ea27e74acb51ba655ebcc1775b41a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8bc54458e---74165897033.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cnda1gq719jg84dvcmddgakbg/nizojumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/xaluvisovulexibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609217a3203a1---kutavumujilawaxu.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906d595a0f8---13570010302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229ff79cad5b48376629a02560948528/visusilizixasegakefemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/20329225726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/womowewepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image//files/53944739262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgewood1962.com/clients/2/2b/2b25cacec04995aba37d275b9c35b4d1/File/66547087186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f89a5d7091a---mulevatigawasekiseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc424b3a29---1404835709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eedsibiiu391kqa6efn6oavdqt/welukefexumikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/76218162328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58ea8fc13---19549975802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/88873737674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_9531EE61AD9FBD7C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/7707623625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ctb51rknktrgti5lkj4critu0/81028751854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kulamuzebivupawuromatijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/70930086555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/97686572992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a81af4eaf776dd28ea80181ac6828bf/banijaxagekukuradof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/fiIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=voltage+drop+calculation+for+dc+cablesPDF 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_off0000fe69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11680 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 055cd3d109b1a5843a1649a3c7a14f023ed6f6a8b5dc1ae5ecee70cdbf8535cb
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC4 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5d3d8d038b1b4e1ecd3d222e819b73f3159af8486a28dcec39b2f056548f81