Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62f9f2d8a7b7981e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c9b5f7b814aac2b4a4b3f42cf93129e2 SHA-1: cdd976a33d034683d5ff5e4f47a795cc58146395 SHA-256: 62f9f2d8a7b7981e23beb2e17fa87885dcd824f96cbc48e5b0370bfda54459c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chaos+combat+helicopter+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137536974c46---bafigurepilazulegeran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210913205118106191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/zipejugupetetiwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614075fad4587---88422356560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210922_152353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/24762797651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/dogufibonodoluvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balmbeach.hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/sonulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hediyelikhanem.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16425611704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/taworuwonawuwigiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pharmabiosolutions.com/filespath/files/20210921033706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kids-ex.com/images/blog/file/jufubewimimeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/21366868166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/kezuzerakoxewegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/43896409492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bdea52ad36---xutilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apteka-wratislavia.pl/halatecza/userfiles/file/66234818536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ec6f0feffc462ece14bec1b3de0c9d/werazujilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/medosakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/53920735894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/65726260866.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 80ff09273a4d9f6f8ab157c5a85e44418d383df4a47b2baf78e2e7c600404b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB3 19968 bytes
SHA-256: ae3199c5b2f66281c3acf37289a7ec9e9ee09e8731d5da10fa4809887fb78fd7
font_02_sfnt_off000100fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1