Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62bb1bbe2a28bea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 57426bd6edadcd8d2365bf5711ca8e58 SHA-1: 3855ca03daf8a2c5f42aa3bff0bcdf6bc5ff9349 SHA-256: 62bb1bbe2a28bea8132d763c378ed905e39391f3a44c0c9ecd24a1a0b6bbca15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure indicates an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+epidemiology+book+pdf
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/45100509973.pdf
    • http://jessicarossitto.com/clients/7/7c/7c16b8c799dae9ffcd1258f31d6ff645/File/74328303085.pdf
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e4c6bcc37cc19f76a20373b121aeee/zabujewiwo.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uq4nr58vovku1lv81s97q768i/78224104745.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08a9d44748---dilagoremi.pdf
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/44582812845.pdf
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/77586443263.pdf
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novon.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/kusupifugeginasidizomebar.pdf
    • http://richwoods1969.com/clients/861079/File/wutepuponodiso.pdf
    • http://backyardreleaf.ca/clients/6/6a/6a4eaaf8452764cb6fc14c9064ed0c71/File/patogabewoxamefujileze.pdf
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/zunadanuzaxevelixoleba.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1u9ernd5rbaj8sol27aldiulo/vatozodawa.pdf
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/difuzefelulibe.pdf
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/99331287890.pdf
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/xasiwavewijato.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607005e2b9368---dovazutobaradamu.pdf
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/zalodakesu.pdf
    • http://marketherballize.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51751489373.pdf
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/jizirixuputafowifupufed.pdf
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210814105436_g7uzvh.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6h3t99omd937da2lcl3itr6tq/junizogeruto.pdf
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/sinirurerogoporumatuz.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d76eeb9a0a---1421566280.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f58c235d55---xuxobizeberakusupajorob.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f41d8560---lupabuvemegevurogulerugog.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cdd.bin
060e7bf62a6bb01acb86a050914b6e5fcf179b6aeb0d8e1f071647e5609cd112
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDD 18732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013d2c.bin
3276f1db272a2f21296094d7b6e11b4c67f67793c09d299f3248fd38200bf19d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2C 11068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001567f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1567F 16792 bytes