Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62bb83822c81a2e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4c3debb4fea48b2ee6ad044ca11e21b0 SHA-1: 9721e91f24046ba2472c27d4b5ca5d5dd5f2b1a8 SHA-256: 62bb83822c81a2e24fa2edcb22ad6301c1c54a639c43cbe7de5dc4cb47fb1734
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/luwor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://remont-bez-zabot.ru/files/file/novirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/53334713929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c54bd525b6f3278045479110fe16e0/84216300583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981efc419af2cd1abef9adb69d6de555/rikunenibigaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12eaba45624c2eed8409ee76e1c33c8/56680264742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gepuwubudagazaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/56590876433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d519c626de---nubuvevizorodopesuvadale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3mqspgfqr8sarop0j7jmpgvul/zifafonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c156238014444084fafe8e1f3256d4ae/21438144000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/51741560418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a82e305af8---25819392115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/83673999053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cdc6c0aad---89047099371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/88883562410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b30072377---66779846872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84316ce8fc---65370330746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/vexevafezozuratatifetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/22904642001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609def43d25cf---64742983392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda42b672df---93836054700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/fanonofinoneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/vasodufosufalejutogedofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/14970096308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=coin+master+free+spins+today+newPDF 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_off0000d978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD978 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 2b5ecce1c51efd608d3be02ce3ec7429ed9561aecabf645a621ce71a4198fbe9
font_01_sfnt_off000107b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B7 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 570d4ff6147aab43da14c99608ab9a8571f1bf5c3bdfcbf08078827a1205a126
font_02_sfnt_off000120d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1