Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62ee0413f330896c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-04 15:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1e9404bf78462695e84af27530fd155b SHA-1: 1e8b49ed09e44d6a1d1de3c0db5dfad3d36c29ab SHA-256: 62ee0413f330896cc1d520a9ffb6fb64a380cfd14c6f72f573e1dd9f3adf8cd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to exploit users via link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f8fbea75d---6485489824.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c6f70d849---18660632681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/xedunixubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/nusefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae7e1801b1---79263977104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3103u4t5hkq89ihfh4fj13t36m/dexixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/dovanaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5288b61e1ad66525c8ce686e25ead1a/4079201757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llj7pe163tfdotufhjhdn6c3d7/55351653814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82adcda947---papofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d33a7e4fab---tewudizikufijadaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/jagigufujobukulobatemib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/puxipegakululotopefebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094fba8f074f---84429195239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/91641171787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/34504792346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3738efbd613d0ea41f036d50d9ccb298/wafumazavalusurevonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/90687625826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff9dba2797---nukeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/51299444096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/89250772270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a041049d806---33153143747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b325e79c11a98771f4fb3cf7923c968b/74388514054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9a22420c511997d2df5d153d9a1fb0d/xokapizasobobegosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/mipitidepejiturewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/woborixojuduzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+icf+coachingPDF 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_off0000ed11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED11 17408 bytes
SHA-256: e8bfb1be1357bf84b91c176422569cdbc5637f1a3f5f272d92f1dd9bc40b287b
font_01_sfnt_off00011adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADC 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab854fcc31531dd0f5248b35f6087b5ee08b7b529a11c9a208a3cdc1607d146
font_02_sfnt_off000132a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1