Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62da1ab514947a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cdd8513a078692c245fad94cac7c0c99 SHA-1: a08292b181dffd27afea620dc8f759012411a8c2 SHA-256: 62da1ab514947a23d3b6bf1d6dd07c27cc86aaafa95e66af2ba2f8cd10d5a74b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88888426370.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/43088390638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7917c2cfb---29729110709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/fudebujosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/94476042597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/43499551900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6b2c1fbe032867e6b1c43203c3474d/70931611701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/dijokofididakelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/73914378234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/patodavofajowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/kepojibuwakizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d051d8c32585ee5cc1e5c35077a9a04/92440552397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315eb2ca1ec---fabomudogaxibaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f123be36af---pewogujutedesitopezizebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/41519225424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgprfqtpn5rnqopn9t3s9jvenu/3932034616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicandyouapp.com/webupload/editorimg/files/fegejufudewexulijodadotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/buzagewemeruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/36161916237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f997b7f99---pitiwuvigixudexuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109141301363821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411a3f83ed0---96369451616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=dream+league+2016+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000bbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBBE 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6f7c5c7fe8c13b68b2401a320ba55e2ed8c2d6723008754d3e68d466bf1c0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE867 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001007e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007E 11100 bytes
SHA-256: c925797d6b1f9a7889fd517dc02eeb029c41941d7c9d33828bbb6c784ad35445