Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62d38799b2708d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: f0502ff6f95f967a03dcf173ad9f75a0 SHA-1: b05a0d69a6f01e17af91d86e5e4e39f53dcce174 SHA-256: 62d38799b2708d1ac2c5226ef78aa0532c31c54db30b7937fbdbcbcf823aaa61
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hmh+civics+textbook+pdf.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hmh+civics+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volepeluxenoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8svltk47k7fes2ofqo4vs4se8u/giwujugodabifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210727030055194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/56916744436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d5fe86c1bf90533e14efee507cf3726/bamarizimotanagapader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/30330112687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vs3vbjf0tag2pavv9vusrcej7/50036571756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/97095859599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/28140837286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/65936085317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve4gbol8r8ubn1utnpk8615c81/36824811451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41149044925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/kuvufuxotesarigirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9qklatl9i05i23l6ujkoc29b1/sutivixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a218e7ebd2f5e98f166c39e136ad48b/18540228811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0d86e60874b80480a789797035ab93c/gejavikeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/79622214739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90450698751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/lunopepado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0afe9fd70---pumawipopimobujazetituje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16098dba9cf856---67283963642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bc7dfa9b55---lilakuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21a58445e375a42514cf4078c8fe7d84/noxuw.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_off00010518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10518 19108 bytes
SHA-256: 3139aa7b64dead93d6529fb6681aec92cc95104cfba3f359eb6927b35616d226
font_01_sfnt_off00013799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13799 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014fb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FB0 10864 bytes
SHA-256: b164c4a2b08077d23c5fd69df390b82ebfa108e6f5da78cddf28be770edde7ef