Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62d5c2b5a41982eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 21:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 27b758918613f5192ac967abf01bccff SHA-1: 3cf0b97d6e16537a0bc7ac0cc1ef0f27f73c7611 SHA-256: 62d5c2b5a41982eb791915a0e5f1b834be9851be40a220452bfe475f425a213c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or exploit kits. The presence of external URI links and link farm indicators strongly suggests an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kgf+chapter+2+tamil+full+movie+download+moviesda PDF link annotation
    • http://trickorsuite.com/clients/5/5d/5d84d12f6f4dfd10bbe5497c884a5f3e/File/bopizojafukadabudevowira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a40eec9e76---47020825073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce50ada06a2---72602094036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5d0d0e4f---bukabovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/nenakupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c8243f27730864bfb27c0a43245aced/78174674840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/85241078711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///xuvokapebodenepedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddl33lu99m41ab1veg582uvllr/fajamubinutasakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/jefazefewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af80d206ab---murelitizubigorutefupefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff55478779d---19481761467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/3804689362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58e0b0ef69---fipevediwuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aslnoplnig9jjjbielssrrdgu/41549956134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/17832848891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cc291fa8---vulufuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63375957821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4f41c30a0---89556872544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/43069510695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5e1f285a---zexalozuletotuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/5785326715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c82b1832b---lilimunarotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/milomutezexojuxujilit.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_off0000e304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE304 11428 bytes
SHA-256: 5e96407b54b63a11e1e2184166ad5ae03035077a8328cb14c8d6ea4cd58ac708
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC6 16868 bytes
SHA-256: d6c2208f563edf648bef6358d7da719055106c94a29cb34b87e9ffdc998df32a
font_02_sfnt_off00012a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1