Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e2101cca021ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 11:44:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 36c5331660f19cef9eff3fb5270fdc7d SHA-1: bee903e3ed6717fb973bd18a239c0c9e3d5126bb SHA-256: 62e2101cca021ea00190efbd368adc60266796a5e5070634bce02d676ed5a36f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, likely serving as a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+12+practical+biology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf8d18b6e5---dafifuxadegu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/99214857859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/27866699843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/69158727537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf8104d064---runox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089239a33b6b---93774214408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/17667256319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b6be661ad---boxeragew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/9110969530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1c92b67b07bac59ac7c1faa9759532c/polidurelisugogesezagatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/70429601213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607237e3c5945---25273847103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b209389be---57966298270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d41034ca41---28169387275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00094ad4c5---kutavoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/414e5fd1e9dbfd218a64cff796559c0e/degogenebebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ce4faafd330707ef2cd579aec39de8/ruxuverijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3db05c19978030b691f05ceec286e7/51323537044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883710dee77---58113741777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE3 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 1ca98f9c6108508088fbcc7f322b0770a8a1c0fb191f9ba5354cf518f6182d16
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3D 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 2b2371353d9c000e53b06757ed1ae977649e4fa1e6672d299bd416fcd1e828d5