Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e8de912d55e083…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3d40aaaea5bd2568786f097c78449de4 SHA-1: 0492ae9bfc29d449f8b0e79ab61fd130c67bff91 SHA-256: 62e8de912d55e083f51d88c95c4b5778cc9f60232cf150f6cc8bb30dfcdf6855
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure, possibly related to 'international chamber of commerce incoterms'. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/getotamujuguvob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/wagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/93033889507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2e192186---newisesotajoperejefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b131f761f0a---folalesuvolafukewugitivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d310e43cbfa---napawarekexojuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/tobedusasamebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/46712815437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c124ba2d711---safutejuvomuvoluvizasoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/kujudube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd4804ece49ebb457062195f71a7cd0/85155337602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5v902urk6e7um9hbb088mea4/92829250181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97e39f0394---28178789174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/lixijonerofaxavipudovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd7cff5669f575acce221721838f7e5/66570626467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/33509792317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=international+chamber+of+commerce+incoterms+pdfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d68d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68D 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 01cd0e4798e93fb086042d610f43ddeed7bf091af48aa863f5c4a4f61b651684
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC62 23392 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb525d85bdb54734cad079aec7ab6c64e27c159769c24f2cf90532f4e2e03af
font_02_sfnt_off0001282b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14038 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_04_sfnt_off00014835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14835 10976 bytes
SHA-256: d3fbc292574396f9cb81d0f96784695ffb004101963a3cfded4e454d635cd4a2