Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c17c1011488200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 17:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7f01f4825947cd359e74024c3959f566 SHA-1: 93f39f934e346f4072b1681eae5900932ee1c7cb SHA-256: 62c17c1011488200c7200674f149b20387c158774638bb3c61c9fcfb7989c309
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest this file is designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57329597559.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/63458636457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210719_081538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slanfusa.org/clients/47225/File/jofijogekagovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76535248118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca15366fea---5153881440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a578c3399bfeccde00b37ec4f116da/79708903168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/kipefofuzeresani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b8f3e534f1ddb0bdc8451a5a116a97/21616395422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343b48fe63---14739657604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869c6530f33---nezonevedawuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/biredezumewuzusefoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0988de181fbef9e7ffca1e320813d5b0/21735887484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/16223346951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ad67666944408f3eecf9fedc4c99ec/99740011021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821c85718f3---solovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/kivopodugolodiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkk8ett5t0n6l2pccailrrhdko/24817133496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klairtransport.com/uploads/files/33523631644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c866598649---jiwizepodukoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a100605fd---89997399775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d353deaaff---80565401453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyconnection.com/clients/f/f3/f37d50667a1bb99e511e26172889fab9/File/boxabetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=aprender+coreano+pdf+descargarPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEA 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 3c709ae19d6f06814fba1d17328b1c8a40bd85aed9ca22fe88c2b698f8eb6991
font_01_sfnt_off000107cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CF 20452 bytes
SHA-256: c3beace876cf4f9476de8d65b1cf299f1f89a813e0cdbc053095562f21eaddd4
font_02_sfnt_off00013cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CDF 2064 bytes
SHA-256: 5221cc56e96b657ff7c15f49bf1fbf1b5222e15cd7ffd769ce953162a3e53832
font_03_sfnt_off0001461e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1461E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1