Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62fbc184c049011e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0a10d052a03c53eaccd4e118ddd9199c SHA-1: 3f9474a61efc286270c91bcd8b3461d7ae33a641 SHA-256: 62fbc184c049011e09c080d236411add1cfad94c218a692057701bad87c2898b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are characteristic of phishing campaigns that direct users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recover+deleted+photos+from+android PDF link annotation
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93812234347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/fixaborepalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cukimentescukraszda.hu/files/files/80643093983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/5104787705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/wavivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/26975453468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///80452665625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/60946007446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjc-dev.com/userfiles/file/webawenedonizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/bipenigodukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eco-translation.ca/upload/editor/file/73828376695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327de4480d6---98078444041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631199599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-n-s.net/userfiles/file/sofekovejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/7812770845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f3e995800---67061885964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.szphotar.com/admin/img/files/nuvaxibofiwalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/98552376724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/xixalojikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/55367653112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b8066103f---42186812717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/50062140659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragokazapusunupixaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newshop.jp/archive/file/pezipusewizuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359113acba1---matomivupaguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/nidemoxagejebokororeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f993d6e95---niluxopulo.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_off00010c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6B 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 782732080b44f7239b15f064de556bf2a8ad67111ec36ba2267175abf8797e46
font_01_sfnt_off00013af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15308 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 7f218dd9b02a49b2bcc8f2af86d253f96979aa4cfea70975a05f1093db54834b