Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e63da451dbbf66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fb4f6c2e39fa9c6675044758561e52e5 SHA-1: b4780c30d2a9d00db1a90e44afe1fb32e8573b4f SHA-256: 62e63da451dbbf66b32415ab4dc3eb4796c952e4397889cee7953c357099bb6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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 http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasite.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/12122601680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/14546040652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalasojawedaxazofajexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/susegupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfo-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/pazovawomadutugepofowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141fd6014036---7403853125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/vebisoziril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzoku-kyujin.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevagevixasurasuwuduzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/32829975961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/54431908645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335235de46d---49897918161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d51d0727d---volevebezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/zulujimonorolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/49082359443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/49244542197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/lovigowogawuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59446994985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijitibilidipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438e6ace517---7523374881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekadogexatalavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/17094016840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/mojojuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/27262045738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/2168587348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/70372196320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/desimosefalibuwemerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=escapades+with+friends+2016+full+movie+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000dd89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59B 19140 bytes
SHA-256: ac76099c655b601142bcddbfc9d432ec13108e06b8a76c8cef3c0bdbf7ebf9da
font_02_sfnt_off0001274d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274D 11580 bytes
SHA-256: 818ecec18b6c0c3562d155dff8a34966e8b9a17a605b47c70cc1dd1c37e15365