Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62ddbddc41e0848c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.5 KB Created: 2021-06-24 04:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26a5d96c40e549305b095d798204a630 SHA-1: da0822c27b164d65d976f124985e5c6ed1a40ac7 SHA-256: 62ddbddc41e0848c51f7a892ded8f09de58d36dc452b2d212c16ada32ef2e320
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data rather than user-readable content, further indicating a malicious intent to obscure its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0934047ae96b21366bf9fb80f17c48a9/7160135015.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64e84c0b46e7720f53e4c869b08fdd6/pewezulirikoderesebuvuvu.pdf
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cvso03kdi33llpb8qm71upi92/punodifemixitodowam.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb09853d093---39811649625.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ce2c922f4---sulawezesurajogej.pdf
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/240809113367.pdf
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/904ce627e60947a8d2e8d2bfef0080c2/90909586997.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609770f53709b---mubamiwejazeruxabolos.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk1jthisl0otr4m35gap5qkqn7/32098471790.pdf
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/57050020352.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20feec4581543d12471b7d44b417e9b/vivewow.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40363044f1---3474245895.pdf
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c00d351ca70b58775cdd445110906e9/61264822118.pdf
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bae2e6423b---deboranipufoputiduxaluj.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade3c3d6a42---23296199254.pdf
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/94896178169.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dell+powervault+nx3100+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc31.bin
2ffc79f293599af690ba6f5115f29394c66236b3f3bd88322348ad1c58836c5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC31 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce7e.bin
98bf5a17666b5b8db0a377ea9be774515aed05e9470095365e388d0192764bff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7E 11288 bytes