Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62fce1d90a80ed88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-08-27 20:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cb4819344d31abae61ee3607cc37789d SHA-1: 415c6dfe5a59533c75e54e0f9981157683babd82 SHA-256: 62fce1d90a80ed88603298f54c60ef729df2f7442a5279dfd43a93c2813c715e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/komugirepuzutepux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f809586c2400c632bf248809afdf6a51/lawerogerabufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwakilavusubifobefovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/6219494093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4a632274a---20682136735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/14359333565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acgksj78lndnfadl9ct3l91bdq/tabomojuvikaxateze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0d40e793c---vujeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2440027.ru/upload/file/gakerukofidemuleretonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ffa8c67c---momaroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/54923133485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62edb27354---877621742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/46715529365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a2e3effc---mimakemelogotenegikopota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0ff6c27f3---tupemarodemumonomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdpo0u07kuuvqgpt7o17clvmqi/81047957803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607023c9f1130---22914140334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ctip5va8asb3dogcsvr9ahsab/12362999614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/pulaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/15972179520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210718062836438127rut40894j5vc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=phineas+and+ferb+promoPDF 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_off00011aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000132b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B9 19940 bytes
SHA-256: 39336279f3fb7d35e95c6f1e2927955902044abc1e145ebf8ae098acf42f8f86
font_02_sfnt_off0001663d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1663D 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 151f4559280d9ff78699eb4cda2101298c9b716b20df6bfa59e3e3d024485ed0