Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62fdfa5ee3925132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-05-30 05:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e14a38fbac85d81d99db30e7a7e896a6 SHA-1: 5ffbef3d3a41abdb6184fd58cd04cba5c172936e SHA-256: 62fdfa5ee3925132ee6081a36732994bd798f5b206bb83c38ac294a85a244192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to MS Office activation, a common lure for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcfa143e16176adf2f1485fa3e8fab8f/relodimisivodeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24147cfc8d602da394682eeb8d768c51/zutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf48e66f07---97010085729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/11957633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/38579097800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de5c767b55---rarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/jirogifotuxule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c55347e00---gupazikonifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugiragjg46vr6bu7cf1ug4kte3/71107437754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ktb5k483v35vpesea1fn3imhs/5856504225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/79204258753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoe27nvqpvis8go4in3dq2133m/39852382400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c4568634---jaxatogukezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607787f4c9e24---49332976998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq7l62879ek7bodmk3nb40ibp1/fopuxudazijazusenojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39c2b74993d797003f2bdeda1294b9e/dukokujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ms+office+2013+activator+without+product+keyPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD722 6024 bytes
SHA-256: 727b4a898b4b3ffee89e5bc66382b532d65b8bf96536d8a068174e83d3ad655c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCA 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 44730e7e0e0032dfc319d66fe1566b02637d415047550a7d8dd2a6e6026cce46