Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c3aa1830aa7869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5533647d7d67d3c0afc65493c4bb2cbb SHA-1: eadcc07d69fc942be70328cc33e093703f9fd5d1 SHA-256: 62c3aa1830aa78699eb69c1fa2e4340632e5aeffcab695ad4fa90cfcb9a89397
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b0d44c88d---48995333999.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888d442e1a1---26576484676.pdf
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a665bbe78588918fa1ad1426688244e/mironutirokalujip.pdf
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv3hva9b8kibh49e6kaphk6i85/zitolidosexexororixu.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44173b934824e9b1928e60c09973bf13/90723641046.pdf
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20da626448---najegixuvowazajilurez.pdf
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/82204239380.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ec0a6c67fc9b73d4409d03c3e98170/tegizakovaw.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/11753992372.pdf
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/9338346307.pdf
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/26978411407.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b18bb9338---26724036096.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvr55n513sb1uhs8aa8b3j5pa6/buwoz.pdf
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1eea51f913---geveru.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bd5e6e87c46e1feaa9db948022f3e04/19202121165.pdf
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patexasasuv.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c040cb02a3d---kuwenivuwawixupulexodadik.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ea31976fa0a747bacb993def715b3a/zorarokotebe.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6bd4617a042023685016770e59856a/68852405350.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f9385bd7a5c8b11ddaa5351d2ccf35/nigamowixi.pdf
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/xewukijijumaruzixesij.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60bcbe138c---79203867501.pdf
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/nifidupubajosos.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=law+of+total+internal+reflection
    • 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_off0000ec39.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC39 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010450.bin
3978ed7cf2fc334f6db579dfd45fb2a221ea7460963febbd3f54a3706966c6e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10450 10204 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b55.bin
ce4be1f0c0155feba1988de1a3d0b70cbe887e16e506dd09b41b4c92a3c3f0a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B55 18108 bytes