Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c3aa8565784c8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-08-30 21:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: faeb60007fd9ce72b8eb0bf1125d5bb3 SHA-1: 55e26edfda724dcdb06f28eadc32546aac43433f SHA-256: 62c3aa8565784c8cb01436bdb0a2fbc6fb72e3d8ec985a68012685049d319299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/2021881141322287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609935338633f---tobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/27671786318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/delurutiwagadapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62284126375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lerucherdesanges.fr/userfiles/file/resarakikijewonumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50423747305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxons99.com/clients/5/5f/5faa49e4155ddd0d4faf97b0d7aa3dde/File/55407929805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/rejabowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oazapiekna.com/zdjecia/fck/file/95365725417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oceanstatevolleyball.org/clients/879495/File/35365804341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73469869f2---13148102161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b706c3aa38---berima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32918884774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334f690b77fef5f5a548da7ce74f3b06/xamunala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078489a4f532---kafoleluxako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609840ca2cbfb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/fifubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62e89876bf---34773734014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3be485ee6---vitinoleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405308bd5002ab816707e823aec97dab/35965519265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765f9307e71b72d690ad46f0c0bbce01/komijafojuviguzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe0b9b0a9f6763e647914d9ee8e57e78/gugawumumitidusevezolapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/83555042038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=factors+affecting+the+rate+of+the+reactionPDF 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_off0000ba28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD23A 15768 bytes
SHA-256: 64909ea9afbd954f85e09f80e18281c0854af1cc4a0e01b2fe050aa3f7064bdd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99B 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 55c6c03639371b9349c99b5f932a1a3b566485ee7fa143955ebfd2ec0fdeca5e