Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c559a1c30edc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 04:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 98e25e7c6b69f614ee2db6e1bdc85ea3 SHA-1: b4b2388fd69eac1e9aed54a784e1076a17d6e5c9 SHA-256: 62c559a1c30edc83aa377455305a482355083fdd0eba7f2ae05d8ca1cf4f0ceb
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL findings point to a common technique for delivering second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d2f40b96f---veboxamima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://internationalbeautypageants.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/lavixowanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/95506739779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c9788a3b8---juxufexuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbb723f8b9---monuruxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b93b2d62767d20a748d90bcf2502f08/negadefivevezilonaketoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/kalokuwukapuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamasteel.net/userfiles/file/23689858759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/tunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/75461337703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/20644231884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/jufeginawaguxibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eddd87b6d2f6063e736cb1d8c496cc8c/96891792140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michael-dhom.com/webseiten/file/betenalileboluved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/xuwujagalomovuvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5571117218904e074ef190440efd6f72/mulodula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/90227800988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristorantebiscione.com/userfiles/files/82210081442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/21136172804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd24ba78c9---zorukedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1c06a8ed0ec2b2f47159e7b34a01a8b/70160984522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52681d988aae97b1b8bef860d470c6f/3062474935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc00ad0c9a---mopewukinejifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/94658041691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bouncing+check+law+philippines+2019PDF 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_off0000ec1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1D 16464 bytes
SHA-256: e55b1f18226aaec6c6659f819d81abcc88693407436f680e1041924b5f2bc406
font_01_sfnt_off000116ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F01 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 2b83a4561eedcdbc9cffdf99398167e28772d5e652c953a2c53445a1f37348e3