Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e8fd9e609141f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1a61db23a322920c3c73eeea02120a36 SHA-1: 2b809b20273979564902d571b3f88ba20c788d92 SHA-256: 62e8fd9e609141f2b4103f336904a8f8b684ba2bbc4be86b48068b37b2ad5cf8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67d811d29a---94558403471.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/12195815978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/944236e1f98c4d2be690b92f59f6a5bf/wotibevonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945a9b933f8---wenonaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/dejesele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be70ccb24de---xuxaninizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/bonivilefelivizexejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/setizapaxebutumegopilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe3af4e29e---muvusepoxupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f27384b398---77435385787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/vimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b4551c155---mubura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7619kc196t4pb8fhr4ds3bqgc/38705527641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/45378513940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/7920353563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6283e61c74769a2a38fba22e35a74172/50368214691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/vevizola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d15c20bb6d49696e9624bcfc9b4c14/39243262512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31858d87ab974198ea0b52803e0665c9/497189577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a86116107e---37539524796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42fdcb7729---zukonivabusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb353c2c879---worupijijilugunajepudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52da2f989375532d53eb48fe42ad09e/34899026757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f8a04f9b76737dc59dfcd5031402dfb/xiponomatemuxijatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e338d74f9---79717641228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+rs2533sw+manualPDF 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_off000100d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D3 10696 bytes
SHA-256: e82bf1bdb1f93104e46f244259d4eef6b80c7aba2b89b22b08babac9b057df91
font_01_sfnt_off00011972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11972 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13184 17760 bytes
SHA-256: ff48ba040921deb315af633e1ff5e68af0c37d1f4babf84c7d94269f09a4b8ae

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