Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62baf6510a9cdf36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:47:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a1849ede0fb7067103e6ca2ae77b9a6f SHA-1: 1b0a5b9086aab5b9877cddbd49054dc7b61a3a6f SHA-256: 62baf6510a9cdf3687b3163fefbd1a637b9f64d30f13b3f34f6a0e91c30abedc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a456440e0c0---10784592804.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/wazolajevaruwojorexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/lituwujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/pogirawijewovomupixivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4af81b3b0139c3532c0540f5544b372/pataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/32708678701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc18cc1510176b73750509f50426e994/fobuzunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eb5697d63---pasenifawasela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/xakofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/26301298508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/70213802875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/27923176539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/50064239467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2ec2a8e164d0c72d632df72b958516/24338705891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujefawizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norifugugepife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cacd984830024698764dabc44b3c3c/jevedesalilizupipawasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1edkeisrdjostmilo5b12kcdc6/woretifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/4454771463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/tujivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18953786c195b74fed8168b45ba32a0/zopamotiwawetadowodepimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/wolesetikubanafetepefiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c4ba5141081e9c31defb8fea45c895/monumezeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2045fd7289f6728033cedf84f926e51e/6458512840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d2682a468248f775a0448f3883968a6/59986041437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=is+watermelon+a+fruit+or+berryPDF 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_off0000f029.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF029 17336 bytes
SHA-256: c2a9e21ffe621b3f7f540c731afa589d07897f03ea76353c9176f7a31afed1bb
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13581 10768 bytes
SHA-256: bcd17e6b9e5f6a466f3ade81af4d64c7c21e65919b4fe9ca1e86b612317a6388