Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c52f5a74926240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-20 12:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2414f3a4cb552a0911e7ae642e35184f SHA-1: b7fd7f7b28909602a16e41fbea27cd509f036175 SHA-256: 62c52f5a749262402138192ebc7dd6569360342947abd37d094197aae94ff699
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=per%C3%ADodo+simples+e+composto+exerc%C3%ADcios+8o+ano+com+gabarito+doc PDF link annotation
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f6b49fba1---jabalezubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klusjesindex.nl/images/uploads/79104279952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/surevisinaxudaluropujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/sazoxipipowesamutowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090528a171f1---rosifiwufojizitanono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fcc0e4383---37546512092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78b260db1---fefesuwabofuruzetubeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k95c3g1ri17d5g9t9ehb0uden4/52929821748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a3c7e96ad---gubopebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/57640572112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607149217cd2b---3302091012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78803061562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/75335046738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/41223649088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcfed6e9c9---41220691207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815f10bddef1a1b714768f9b7a100869/80849054736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ff44e55aa---88490575687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezimifegafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/4797474261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksnnmfgfij4vlje783ril0h9c4/99550533962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/tegedejuwukubowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/voxixexawuvawuxozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2957b3fe53---23200191594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/wanutosufabuponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F8 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe7ad2af9f4eb71e364f0384b7ef7179dc254db9683bb28a986300358ce0c96
font_01_sfnt_off00010d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4D 18948 bytes
SHA-256: e0960fe9fef6cfb8a944c47916bf7635d346981c32593ffb4d527a55a8360864
font_02_sfnt_off00013b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1